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		achillean on Feb 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere Speaking of hostname conflicts: an ISP in Vietnam has configured all their devices to have a reverse DNS name of "localhost" https://www.shodan.io/search?query=hostname%3Alocalhost

JonRB on Feb 17, 2015 [–]

I've experienced this too - I seem to get a few people joining my gameserver from that ISP and I notice the DNS appeared as 'localhost'. Not ideal and I imagine it could break certain things. I always assumed it was a misconfigured internet cafe or something. 'Nice' to know it's a wider issue

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