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From: Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:47:15 -0800
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Subject: Re: Staggered start of nodes in an ensemble
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You might also try this utility for generating the configs:

https://github.com/phunt/zkconf

see the example

$ zkconf.py =97servers =93host1.com,host2.com,168.1.1.1=94 ~/zookeeper_trun=
k
test3servers

you'd probably want similar

Patrick

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org> wrote:
> You might also ensure that the vms can communicate over the ports
> you're using. No firewall say. Have you looked at the logs at all?
> They might shed more light as well.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:13 PM, kishore g <g.kishore@gmail.com> wrote:
>> can you provide the configurations (zoo.cfg) on each server. From the
>> description, your server 1 seems to be incorrectly configured.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Kishore G
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Arindam Mukherjee <
>> arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Of late I have been bombarding this list with questions and am getting
>>> a little frustrated at my lack of understanding of ZooKeeper. I am up
>>> against deadlines that look infeasible now. :(
>>>
>>> Anyway, having majorly failed to get going with 3.5.0 (you might see a
>>> question earlier today), I decided, for the purposes of a PoC to
>>> create a static 3.4.6 configuration. Say, create max 3 VMs, of which 2
>>> are always up. Initially 1 and 2 would be up. I would be listing 3
>>> servers in the config - server.1 through server.3.
>>>
>>> I brought up the servers on 1 and 2 in that order using "zkServer.sh
>>> start-foreground". However they failed to connect and form a quorum
>>> and the foreground server process showed an increasing timeout. Then I
>>> brought up 3 at which point 2 and 3 were able to connect.
>>>
>>> Next I started zkCli.sh from 1 - it failed to connect to any box.
>>> However the ones on 2 and 3 connected neatly. I am at a little loss to
>>> explain this. Need help.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Arindam
>>>