When I first started writing code against the thrift API the FAQ recommended using a round robin DNS to select nodes http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#node_clients_connect_to
The other day Ben said something like "well behaved clients use describe_ring to keep track of running nodes". http://www.mail-archive.com/u...@cassandra.apache.org/msg05588.html
So am wondering what approach people are taking to detecting cluster membership.
1. Round Robin
2. List seeds in app config, connect to a seed, use describe_ring.
3. Round robin and describe_ring
One issue I've found with round robin, is that is the machine is powered off it can take a while for the network to work out there is no ARP for the IP. This may just be a result of the network here, have not looked into it too far.
cheers
Aaron
