Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea...
by nyellin on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:18AM
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Haven't tried this, but can't just do a whois query for the IP address?
Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea...
by rhp on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:51AM
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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.
Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea...
by mappu on Thursday July 12, 2012 @04:11PM
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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.
Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea...
by count on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:32AM
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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.
Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea...
by mnutt on Thursday July 12, 2012 @01:17PM
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I haven't used it, but MaxMind sells an organization database along with their GeoIP database:
Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea...
by patrickambron on Thursday July 12, 2012 @06:27PM
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Yea you can get a similar list from a few places. The problem will be that manytimes the IP will return the company's ISP, which isn't useful for the user
We could always tell you when someone found that profile and where they came from (they came from FB, or they came from Google after Googling your name", but recently we started mapping the IP address to organizations. That data is really accesible--you can buy a list from most major hosting companies--but it's not really used for this purpose