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bcoatesyesterday at 12:28 AM1 replyview on HN

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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essephyesterday at 12:49 AM

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

(same for ping)