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Topic: Reverse Lookup

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite website(s):

Slashdot

Favorite possession(s):

Linux box, Windows computer, Wiretap kit

Dream job(s):

Webmaster

Favorite book(s):

"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
"Beginning Visual Basic 6" by Peter Wright

Favorite food(s):

Interest(s):

Geneology, Computers

Favorite computer game(s):

Hacking, Counter Strike, Quake

Favorite online activity(s):

Spamming, Chatting on ICQ, Finding warez

Membership(s):

Free Software Foundation

Favorite quote(s):

"A rolling stone gathers no moss"
"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at statistics."

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

If reverse DNS lookups have not been performed, WebTrends cannot determine the country of origin and this section is not included in the report.
Reverse lookups can also be performed.

Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

TCP Wrappers do reverse lookups of the incoming IP address.

Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Reverse name lookups are not compulsory, but nice to have.

Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

This method performs a reverse DNS lookup on the connecting IP address that can cause long delays if DNS has not been set up on the server.
Forward lookup and Reverse lookup zones are also supported by Windows 2000 DNS.
Disabling reverse lookups avoids whatever overhead is incurred by the reverse DNS lookup.

Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

A Reverse DNS lookup will give you the DNS name of a computer when all you know is the IP address.
The reverse DNS lookup for routed IP addresses is editable using the Account Management Wizard web page.
This is the reverse lookup table, allowing the DNS Server to reference a Host Name when queried with an IP address.

Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

For performing reverse lookups of E.

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