Ben, can you elaborate on some infrastructure topology issues that would break this approach?
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: > 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 >
