Hello C* Dev list, While thinking through some ways to span clouds / Kubernetes clusters I found some approaches not possible (or significantly difficult) due to how we use IP addresses instead of hostnames. This lead to the creation of CASSANDRA-15823 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15823> along with this message to spark some discussion in this space. The body of the ticket is a little lengthy but goes into the background a bit more.
Additionally while in discussions with some other C* users there is apparently a bit of pain around our use of IPs instead of hostnames. We were about how cass-operator uses DNS for seed node discovery and they were excited about an uptick in hostname / DNS usage instead of a list of IP addresses. Any thoughts about this proposal? What are some pitfalls that should be considered? Thanks, ~Chris Christopher Bradford
