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

a small question from sweden, anders ask-

will the new canonical tag help with issues where you by accident (stupid editors linking to wrong addresses) have indexed sites by the IP address rather than hostname?



I had the double check that there is the certain things you would like to be able to do it , you would like to take your IP address and put that in to the hostname. neither i am thinking allowed, we make the IP address different from the host name so we have the confirment but we dont think it would hurt to go ahead and have that. And i think that there is certain things when you dont want your IP address to show up, you want your host or domain name to show up instead. So i think that would be a nice thing to do, i m not sure whether we supported

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