why do the comments in bacula-dir.conf say not to use "localhost" here?

I'm running Debian 13 (Trixie) on an AMD64 system.

I've been struggling to get bconsole to connect to the storage-director. 
After initially trying to set up a reverse lookup for the server name, I 
took the easy way out and replaced the name with the IP address in the 
autochanger section of bacular-dir.conf. That didn't help.

The reason I was doing all this is immediately above the Address - line 
in that section, it specifically says "Do not use "localhost" here". 
Furthermore, the line itself says "N.B. Use a fully qualified name here".

However, it appears that localhost, or more specifically 127.0,0.1, is 
the only address that works.

 From what I've been reading, if you do follow the "N.B.", you need to 
ensure that there is a working reverse DNS lookup for it in order to 
work. However that need should be removed by using an IP address 
instead.  But if you are running the bacula director on the same device 
as the storage director, it appears that you must use the Localhost IP 
(127.0.0.1).

Can someone please revise the comments to be more reflective of a 
typical situation?



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