diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cc3b5aad..7f243e37 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,8 +12,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ### Changed
 
+- BREAKING: `Listener.status.addresses` now defaults to hostnames for all service types
+  (previously NodePort and ClusterIP would prefer IP addresses).
+  However, the `external-unstable` ListenerClass deployed by the listener-operator still uses the IPs to avoid a regression,
+  e.g. in the case of `kind` clusters the host can probably not resolve the hostname of the Kubernetes node
+  (such as `kind-control-plane`) ([#233], [#243]).
 - `Listener.status.addresses` for NodePort listeners now includes replicas that are currently unavailable ([#231]).
-- `Listener.status.addresses` now defaults to DNS hostnames for all service types (previously NodePort and ClusterIP would prefer IP addresses, [#233]).
 - Stale Listener subobjects will now be deleted ([#232]).
 - Tagged Listener Services with the SDP labels ([#232]).
 
@@ -30,6 +34,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 [#234]: https://github.com/stackabletech/listener-operator/pull/234
 [#237]: https://github.com/stackabletech/listener-operator/pull/237
 [#238]: https://github.com/stackabletech/listener-operator/pull/238
+[#243]: https://github.com/stackabletech/listener-operator/pull/243
 
 ## [24.7.0] - 2024-07-24
 
diff --git a/deploy/helm/listener-operator/templates/listener-classes.yaml b/deploy/helm/listener-operator/templates/listener-classes.yaml
index b57a0fae..dce4dc7d 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/listener-operator/templates/listener-classes.yaml
+++ b/deploy/helm/listener-operator/templates/listener-classes.yaml
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ metadata:
   name: external-unstable
 spec:
   serviceType: NodePort
+  # Ideally we would prefer the Hostname here, but up to (including) SDP 24.7 we defaulted to the IP.
+  # We actually defaulted to Hostname for some weeks, but noticed this breaks external access to kind clusters, as the
+  # local machines can not resolve the hostnames of the nodes (such as kind-control-plane).
+  # So we stick to the old default and re-visit the default later - after SDP 24.11 is released.
+  preferredAddressType: IP
 ---
 apiVersion: listeners.stackable.tech/v1alpha1
 kind: ListenerClass
@@ -36,6 +41,11 @@ metadata:
   name: external-unstable
 spec:
   serviceType: NodePort
+  # Ideally we would prefer the Hostname here, but up to (including) SDP 24.7 we defaulted to the IP.
+  # We actually defaulted to Hostname for some weeks, but noticed this breaks external access to kind clusters, as the
+  # local machines can not resolve the hostnames of the nodes (such as kind-control-plane).
+  # So we stick to the old default and re-visit the default later - after SDP 24.11 is released.
+  preferredAddressType: IP
 ---
 apiVersion: listeners.stackable.tech/v1alpha1
 kind: ListenerClass
@@ -51,6 +61,10 @@ spec:
   # or on-premise environments that don't support external LoadBalancer peering (such as Calico (https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/networking/configuring/advertise-service-ips)
   # or MetalLB (https://metallb.org/)).
   serviceType: NodePort
+  # As the nodes have stable addresses we expect them to have hostnames that are resolvable outside of Kubernetes.
+  # And yes, we know this causes problems when running on kind with the stable-nodes preset (default), as the kind node
+  # hostname is very likely not resolvable on the host machine.
+  preferredAddressType: Hostname
 {{ else }}
 {{ fail "An invalid preset was configured" }}
 {{ end }}