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by cjbprime 2818 days ago
And, of course:

- The user might be connecting through (perhaps internal) DNS names rather than IP addresses. And probably is, because who wants to type in IP addresses all the time?

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It isn't hard to type 10.0.0.1, and using local hostnames like "main" or "box1" wouldn't be much more secure either.