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rhp
on July 12, 2012
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We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What...
That's not always reliable. For example, if you do a query on my company's web server IP address, you'll just get the name of our ISP as your result.
mappu
on July 12, 2012
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Whois on an IP address - you mean rDNS, right? Are you sending mail from this server without fcrdns?
Most VPS providers will let you change the rDNS record for the IP.
count
on July 13, 2012
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No, rDNS And whois are different things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois
vs reverse DNS, which you are obviously familiar with.
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