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Comment by bcoates

4 days ago

Is reverse dns even a thing outside of irc and forgetting to give command line tools the "don’t be slow" flag?

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esseph  4 days ago

If you run a traceroute with DNS on, that is referencing DNS PTR records of those IP addresses.

(same for ping)

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