At 4/9/2001 03:37 AM (Monday), Brad Pepers wrote:

>I've seen it mentioned a few times that connecting using the IP address
>directly is not a good idea but I've yet to read an explaination of why. It
>would be nice to do this since it would remove having to have the user edit a
>system file like this (or adding functionality that does this to my
>application). Whats the problem?

No problem, really. Just not "best practice" when dealing with IP to use
the dotted decimal notation directly because you lose the indirection of
the name lookup. Sometimes, however, doing this is just the ticket.