On Feb 7, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Kevin Keane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When you specify the FQDN of the SD in a Storage resource, does the
> director or the FD do the host name lookup? The documentation seems to
> suggest that it is the FD, but it isn't completely clear to me.
>
> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html#StorageResource2
>
> *Address = <address>*
>    Where the address is a host name, a *fully qualified domain name*,
>    or an *IP address*. Please note that the <address> as specified  
> here
>    will be transmitted to the File daemon who will then use it to
>    contact the Storage daemon. Hence, it is *not*, a good idea to use
>    *localhost* as the name but rather a fully qualified machine name  
> or
>    an IP address. This directive is required.


You aren't saying why you're asking.

The Dir get the <address> and passes it to the FD.  The FD does the DNS.

Does this help?

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