I found an explanation how to abbreviate host names for ssh connections. It can be found here.
So basically you add these lines to .ssh/config:
Host foo
HostName IP-adress-of-server
Now you can connect with:
ssh foo
if you have the same username on host and client or
ssh user@foo
to use a certain username.
If you have any questions, suggestions, thoughts and comments please feel free to email me.
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