On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Steve Loughran wrote:
> 1. you could use DNS proper, by way of Bonjour/avahi. You don't need to be
> running any mDNS server to support .local, and I would strongly advise
> against it in a large cluster (because .local resolution puts a lot of CPU
> load on every server in the subnet).
+1 mDNS doesn't scale to large sizes. The only number I've ever heard
is up to 1000 hosts (not services!) before the whole system falls apart. I
don't think it was meant to scale past like a class C subnet.
Something else to keep in mind: a lot of network gear gets multicast
really really wrong. There are reasons why network admins are very happy that
Hadoop doesn't use multicast.
... and all that's before one talks about the security implications.
