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		mappu on July 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What... 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.

count on July 13, 2012 [–]

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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