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

>>>>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:33:04 -0400, Gary Dale said:
> 
> On 2025-09-02 07:22, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2025, at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> >
> >> Can someone please revise the comments to be more reflective of a
> >> typical situation?
> > Let's say a place uses 127.0.0.1 (or localhost). It's up. It's running.
> >
> > An FD (client / bacula-fd) is added. Backups work well. Everything is great.
> >
> > That's it. You're not adding any more clients. Practically speaking, you're done.
> >
> > If you want to add another client, presumably, on another host, it'll be at, let's say 10.0.0.1
> >
> > You configure the job. You run it.
> >
> > bacula-dir contacts bacula-fd (at 10.0.0.1) and says:
> >
> > Backup this FileSet to this bacula-sd (127.0.0.1).
> >
> > Oh. That isn't going to happen.
> >
> > Other considerations. Using certificates is much easier with hostnames than IP addresses.
> >
> > I also suspect many examples, now lost to history, arose before those comments were added in.
> >
> > If your situation is working only with 127.0.0.1 and you'd like to change that, please ask away.
> 
> 
> Well, the particular situation is I can back up my file server fine 
> using 127.0.0.1. However, if I change the address to the local IP 
> address of the server (or the FQDN), it fails to connect to the storage 
> daemon. So, yes, this part is working.

That would happen if you have set SdAddress or SdAddresses to localhost in the
bacula-sd.conf.

Check what "netstat -ta" or "ss -ta" shows for the sd port (9103).

Also, some Linux distros (Debian in particular), put a line like:

127.0.1.1	myhostname.mydomain	myhostname

in /etc/hosts by default, which causes myhostname.mydomain and myhostname to
resolve to 127.0.1.1 on that machine.  I always delete that line because it
causes some subtle problems.

> I also want to backup my workstation. No matter what address I used in 
> bacular-dir.conf, I get a connection refused message when I check the 
> status in bconsole.

This might be the same problem as above, but for FdAddress or FdAddresses in
the workstation's bacula-fd.conf.

__Martin