Can rel="canonical" index my hostname and not my IP address?

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a smart question from Sweden Anders asks will the new canonical tag help with issues where by accident stupid editors linking to the wrong addresses you've indexed by IP address rather than the host name uh I'll have to double check but um that is the sort of thing that you'd like to be able to do you'd like to take your IP address and put that over to the host name um now that I'm thinking aloud we might consider the IP address different than the host name so we'll have to confirm on that but I don't think it would hurt to go ahead and have have that and ideally that is the sort of thing where you don't want your IP address to show up you want your host or your domain name to show up instead so I think that would be a nice thing to do I'm not sure whether we support it for IP addresses yet but I'll ask yakum the guy that wrote and did the heavy lifting on this code and see what happens