On Tuesday 05 August 2003 16:25, Russell Adams wrote:
>> Also, get rid of 'localhost'!  Amanda is a client/server program
>> and will only work right (although no effect on this formatting
>> problem) for all functions if the FQDN of the machine is used.  We
>> should fix a filter to add this to the sig of every message posted
>> thru the list.  If you cannot recover, you have been warned.
>
>I've heard this before. What exactly is the problem with localhost?
>Could you elaborate?
>
>Russell

Primarily its a security issue because *any* machine can be localhost.
By using the FQDN, there is then no ambiguity as to which machine is 
being addressed.  Its simply good practice.

amrecover and amrestore IIRC are trained to reject localhost because 
the files are portable, and trying to restore to localhost might even 
try to restore a wintel boxes code to a box with a moto cpu in it.  
Thats a bit far fetched, but that is one scenario that won't, for 
obvious reasons, work.

Finally, amanda is a client/server model.  By using localhost, you are 
attempting to bypass that client/server relationship.

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