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gethostbyaddr

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The gethostbyaddr DNS query is when the address of a machine is known and the name is needed.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Process72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: gethostbyaddrs
possessive: gethostbyaddr's
pluralpossessive: gethostbyaddrs'

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