diff --git a/src/squeue/opts.c b/src/squeue/opts.c
index 620e6b7b476778880ee2eb392866b853998a3cae..e043086b5a5026a498db01343c40482e306f0a16 100644
--- a/src/squeue/opts.c
+++ b/src/squeue/opts.c
@@ -216,11 +216,6 @@ parse_command_line( int argc, char* argv[] )
 
 	if ( params.node ) {
 		char *name1 = NULL;
-		if (strcasecmp("localhost", params.node) == 0) {
-			xfree(params.node);
-			params.node = xmalloc(128);
-			getnodename(params.node, 128);
-		}
 		name1 = slurm_conf_get_nodename(params.node);
 		if (name1) {
 			xfree(params.node);