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It's forward confirming reverse DNS. I assumed that everyone does that by default.



What everyone does by default doesn't matter really here, it's that an IP owner/user can literally set the reverse to any arbitrary domain regardless if the actual domain has a record for that IP. What matters is both match, thats all I meant


xena said "forward confirming reverse" twice which means rdns and then resolving that forward to confirm it matches.


I don't know if it was edited or I missed it in the first post but you're right.

I'd still be surprised if an Amazon domain resolved to a residential IP




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