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Comment by cmeacham98

4 years ago

They could also just do a reverse DNS lookup on the IP (and then forward lookup to confirm it).

This would be less effective for sites run through CDNs (ex Cloudflare) though.

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sneak  4 years ago

You just described almost all major API endpoints. Using PTRs is practically useless for this purpose.

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