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xena
3 months ago
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Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstab...
It's forward confirming reverse DNS. I assumed that everyone does that by default.
petee
3 months ago
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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
nalllar
3 months ago
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xena said "forward confirming reverse" twice which means rdns and then resolving that forward to confirm it matches.
petee
3 months ago
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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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