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    ~ % dig +short hacketyhack.net
    72.232.19.34
    ~ % dig +short -x 72.232.19.34
    Cewki.com.
http://cewki.com was registered today and says:

    where's _why?
    see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106
EDIT: So this is interesting. As far as I can tell, this site is hosted by Isaac Force, owner of autognosis.org, and ruby user. He lives in Oregon though, and is almost definitely not _why.

Also, cewki is Polish for "coil".

Maybe the problem is that I don't understand DNS. Is there some way reverse DNS could point at this guy's server without _why telling it to? What's going on? >_<



In bind and most dns servers the ip reverse registers are saved in different zones than the domains. There are times when you get an ip address that was previously used and still has the reverse dns configured (usually ISPs cancel the domain or server but don't delete the reverse ip info).

It's possible but not too likely to happen.




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