They are probably doing this to stop people using DNS tunnelling to bypass sites/blocks/paywalls setup.
Doing this can end up biting you in the butt in a few months time when Google move the service to a different place and you've forgotten to change the IP in hosts.
Certainly works as temporary solution - this is how I test some of my websites before I push them into production via DNS.
Doing this can end up biting you in the butt in a few months time when Google move the service to a different place and you've forgotten to change the IP in hosts.
Certainly works as temporary solution - this is how I test some of my websites before I push them into production via DNS.