Are they able to elect a leader or not even that? -Flavio
On May 22, 2012, at 6:31 AM, Marshall McMullen wrote: > In our Linux environment, we're using IP addresses only for all our > zookeeper servers. We've observed that without a functioning DNS server, > zookeeper peers cannot communicate with one another. We have been able to > work around this in the past by putting entries in /etc/hosts for all the > zookeeper servers. With entries in /etc/hosts no reverse name lookup is > performed and everything works fine. > > Has anyone else seen this behavior or can confirm/deny whether zookeeper > requires (assumes) a functioning DNS server.. ? > > I've gone through a lot of the quorum code related to IP addresses, and I > thought the culprit might be calls to InetAddress.getByName. But looking at > the source code for that (at least in openjdk) they return if the given > string is an actual IP address. Other thoughts I had were calls to > InetSocketAddress(hostname, port), but that looks like it similarly goes > through InetAddress so that should be OK. > > Anyhow, I'll keep digging into this, but any ideas or help would be > appreciated!
