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diff --git a/nova/flags.py b/nova/flags.py
index c47c77ab1..e0f1ceded 100644
--- a/nova/flags.py
+++ b/nova/flags.py
@@ -440,7 +440,8 @@ DEFINE_string('image_service', 'nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService',
'The service to use for retrieving and searching for images.')
DEFINE_string('host', socket.gethostname(),
- 'name of this node')
+ 'Name of this node. This can be an opaque identifier. It is '
+ 'not necessarily a hostname, FQDN, or IP address.')
DEFINE_string('node_availability_zone', 'nova',
'availability zone of this node')