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fix #699 People usually enter IP addresses into Connect Server, and that's not gonna be a FQDN, which we need for SASL to work correctly. If this causes problems for people (i.e. they were depending on the old behavior of assuming that the connect server was the fqdn), then we'll have to implement something smarter to detect IP addresses vs hostnames, and make TheRightDecision(TM)

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