diff --git a/pbs-api-types/Cargo.toml b/pbs-api-types/Cargo.toml
index 09107ace..e77d8bc4 100644
--- a/pbs-api-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pbs-api-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,3 @@ proxmox-schema = { version = "1.1", features = [ "api-macro" ] }
 proxmox-serde = "0.1"
 proxmox-time = "1.1.1"
 proxmox-uuid = { version = "1.0.0", features = [ "serde" ] }
-
-[target.'cfg(not(target_arch="wasm32"))'.dependencies]
-proxmox-sys = "0.2" # only needed for nodename()??
diff --git a/pbs-api-types/src/lib.rs b/pbs-api-types/src/lib.rs
index 26bef33d..e3c3df11 100644
--- a/pbs-api-types/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pbs-api-types/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 //! Basic API types used by most of the PBS code.
 
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use anyhow::bail;
 
 pub mod common_regex;
 pub mod percent_encoding;
@@ -199,15 +198,9 @@ pub const DNS_NAME_OR_IP_SCHEMA: Schema = StringSchema::new("DNS name or IP addr
     .format(&DNS_NAME_OR_IP_FORMAT)
     .schema();
 
-#[cfg(not(target_arch="wasm32"))] // this only makes sense for the serever side
+
 pub const NODE_SCHEMA: Schema = StringSchema::new("Node name (or 'localhost')")
-    .format(&ApiStringFormat::VerifyFn(|node| {
-        if node == "localhost" || node == proxmox_sys::nodename() {
-            Ok(())
-        } else {
-            bail!("no such node '{}'", node);
-        }
-    }))
+    .format(&HOSTNAME_FORMAT)
     .schema();
 
 pub const TIME_ZONE_SCHEMA: Schema = StringSchema::new(