[CentOS] how to let other people know my hostname through IP address

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jul 26 02:26:38 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:00:19AM +0800, dxuranus wrote:
>   i have a public hostname "a" (not my machine name)on internet and my
> ip is xx.xx.xx.xx;
>   the problem is other people can get my ip through hostname.but if he
> try to get my hostname through ip he always failed.
>   the case above is in my program (i make it) ,what can i do for this?

This is not a CentOS issue. You need your ISP to set your "reverse DNS".
Depending on your ISP, they may not do this for customers at all.

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