On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Andres March <ama...@qualcomm.com> wrote: > I didn't have anything specific in mind. I understand all the issues around > DNS and not advocating only supporting hostnames (just thought it would be a > nice option). I also wouldn't expect name resolution to be done all the > time, only when the node is first being started or during initial discovery. >
All nodes would have to resolve whenever topology changed. > One use case might be when nodes are spread out over multiple networks as > the poster describes, nodes on the same network on a private interface could > incur less network overhead than if they go out through the public > interface. I'm not sure that this is even possible given that cassandra > binds to only one interface. > This case is not actually solved more simply by gossiping hostnames. It requires much more in-depth understanding of infrastructure topology. b
