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Subject: Re: zookeeper quorum verification
From: Suraj Varma <svarma.ng@gmail.com>
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J-D:
Did you mean that a _single_ dns entry returns all five ips belonging
to individual zk nodes?

Is this used only by "clients" ... or even within the cluster?
And ... the zk nodes self-identify by IP ... and is this how region
server nodes reach out specifically to the "leader" zk node?
--Suraj


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcryans@apache.org> wrote:
> It's pretty much what we do, works well.
>
> J-D
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Rita <rmorgan466@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> Previously, I assigned 5 servers as part of the zookeeper quorum.
>> Everything works fine but I was hard coding these 5 servers everywhere and
>> I was thinking of creating a dns entry called appquorum which will always
>> return these 5 servers IPs.
>>
>> Any thoughts about this?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--