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Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by nyellin on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:18AM (#4234918)
Haven't tried this, but can't just do a whois query for the IP address?
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Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by rhp on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:51AM (#4235167)
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.
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Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by mappu on Thursday July 12, 2012 @04:11PM (#4236490)
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.

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Re:We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we lea... by count on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:32AM (#4238221)
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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