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Flavio Junqueira commented on ZOOKEEPER-1506:
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Let me clarify my previous point. The description of this jira talks about
bringing up a new instance to upgrade/replace a ZK node. It it starting a ZK
node from scratch, essentially dropping the state of the previous incarnation
of the node, that I was trying to point out that could be a problem. Resolving
names again as this patch proposes is fine. We should get this one in.
> Re-try DNS hostname -> IP resolution if node connection fails
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>
> Key: ZOOKEEPER-1506
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1506
> Project: ZooKeeper
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: server
> Affects Versions: 3.4.5
> Environment: Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit
> Reporter: Mike Heffner
> Assignee: Michael Lasevich
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: patch
> Fix For: 3.4.7, 3.5.1
>
> Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-1506.patch, ZOOKEEPER-1506.patch,
> ZOOKEEPER-1506.patch, zk-dns-caching-refresh.patch
>
>
> In our zoo.cfg we use hostnames to identify the ZK servers that are part of
> an ensemble. These hostnames are configured with a low (<= 60s) TTL and the
> IP address they map to can and does change. Our procedure for
> replacing/upgrading a ZK node is to boot an entirely new instance and remap
> the hostname to the new instance's IP address. Our expectation is that when
> the original ZK node is terminated/shutdown, the remaining nodes in the
> ensemble would reconnect to the new instance.
> However, what we are noticing is that the remaining ZK nodes do not attempt
> to re-resolve the hostname->IP mapping for the new server. Once the original
> ZK node is terminated, the existing servers continue to attempt contacting it
> at the old IP address. It would be great if the ZK servers could try to
> re-resolve the hostname when attempting to connect to a lost ZK server,
> instead of caching the lookup indefinitely. Currently we must do a rolling
> restart of the ZK ensemble after swapping a node -- which at three nodes
> means we periodically lose quorum.
> The exact method we are following is to boot new instances in EC2 and attach
> one, of a set of three, Elastic IP address. External to EC2 this IP address
> remains the same and maps to whatever instance it is attached to. Internal to
> EC2, the elastic IP hostname has a TTL of about 45-60 seconds and is remapped
> to the internal (10.x.y.z) address of the instance it is attached to.
> Therefore, in our case we would like ZK to pickup the new 10.x.y.z address
> that the elastic IP hostname gets mapped to and reconnect appropriately.
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