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by coffeeri 1091 days ago
It is good that this does not work. As one IP might be shared by multiple accounts. A cache of the mapping IP --> AccountNo is also not favorable in terms of privacy.
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> As one IP might be shared by multiple accounts.

No "might" about it, that's one of the most important traits of this type of service.

Yes indeed, but it's not guaranteed that there'll be multiple clients connected to one server at a time, even if it's unlikely.