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11th November 2020, 08:31 | #11 |
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Sounds like the webadmin accidentally made their test mirror website public.
I used to work for a fortune 500 software company and we had HUNDREDS of subdomains for internal use. We had maybe 2 or 3 dozen subdomains that were accessible to the outside web (for specific purposes, marketing, etc). The idea was to keep the load off the main server, so instead of companyname.com/support it had a URL of support.companyname.com. But our INTERNAL support was helpdesk.companyname.com which was NOT visible to the outside web. My guess is that the company has a "mirror" working-copy test site where they implement changes to their main web server and test them before going live - hence the "qa" name (quality assurance) but someone accidentally made it a public domain via their DNS server. It would have all the structure of the current site (plus anything they were testing) but many of the semi-static pages would not be up to date. With it out there on the open web, Teh Google managed to index it. Hence it showed up on searches. |
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13th November 2020, 14:13 | #12 |
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qa is for the mobile app.
If you go to coasttocoastam.com and go to the menu and pick MORE, then Mobile App; it takes you to qa.coasttocoastam.com. Perhaps you have been spending too much time on a conspiracy site and getting too suspicious. LOL |
13th November 2020, 15:03 | #13 |
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wasn't i with all the conspiracy theories, but u still gotta wonder: if it's for their mobile app, why is the content for a few days here and there totally diff from the main sched?!
-dAb-'s answer sounded good to me. incl how "qa" stands for an actual QA dept. but you're in disagreement with the idea that it's a sandbox of sorts? |
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they crawled it anyway just like they scanned all those books whether or not it was legal |
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4th December 2020, 18:37 | #15 |
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QA
stands for quality assurance. You stumbled on a testing domain. network admins use testing domains before it goes live. Sometimes they intentionally threw in weird shit simply because no fuck head manager is watching every goddamn thing they do. We used to have a complete separate MS Exchange on a test domain with user accounts like world's biggest cunt, and The fat shithead from space, or, the black hole.These accounts mirrored actual accounts. naturally, because we wanted to continue to dish out the abuse, the live domain was carefully kept separate from the test, but because we were lazy bastards, all of the real users emails were mirrored on the test server. There was no way we were going to waste our time writing emails so we could simply mirror theirs into the appropriate test account. The domain test server was on was QA.blah blah blah. edu
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