Re[2]: Reverse DNS lookup

2001-07-06 Thread wire
Friday, July 06, 2001, 7:02:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RL The InetAddress...getHostName() call will use the DNS databases. RL For most computers, however, this won't return anything useful. That is not true. Most of US IPs have PTR records. That includes your own IP, that you

Re: Re[2]: Reverse DNS lookup

2001-07-06 Thread David Wall
RL The InetAddress...getHostName() call will use the DNS databases. RL For most computers, however, this won't return anything useful. That is not true. Most of US IPs have PTR records. That includes your own IP, that you had when sending your msg. By far, most servers have rDNS,