Hi.
thanks a lot Seth for clarifying this.
We changed the Chef recipe and it works great. Awesome!
Mike
On 1 October 2013 18:50, Seth Thomas <stho...@basho.com> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Based on the Chef line you have there, the issue is that you aren't
> providing a FQDN. If the name is just "<hostname>-int" then it isn't a
> fully qualified domain name and therefore Erlang complains.
>
> Hopefully that clears up the confusion.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Mike Nathe <mna...@fathom-i.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex.
>>
>> thanks a bunch for the info and the link to the white paper.
>>
>> Unfortunately we still haven't been able to use a domain name in the
>> vm.args successfully.
>>
>> We use Chef scripts to build our EC2 instances (OpsWorks).
>> The only difference in the scripts is:
>>
>> # use domain name
>> node.set['riak']['args']['-name'] = "riak@#{node['hostname']}-int"
>> # use ip
>> node.set['riak']['args']['-name'] = "riak@#{node['ipaddress']}"
>>
>> The deployment with the ipaddress works great.
>> The deployment with the hostname does start the server but the tools do
>> not work (<riak-admin ringready> returns "Node is not running").
>> We checked /var/log/riak and the console.log and error.log looked clean,
>> though there was an erlang dump.
>>
>> Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> The result of a simple test for hostname deployment:
>>
>> ubuntu@riaknode1:~$ sudo /usr/local/riak/bin/riak-admin ringready
>> Node is not running!
>>
>>
>> The result of a simple test for ipaddress deployment:
>>
>> ubuntu@riaknode1:~$ sudo /usr/local/riak/bin/riak-admin ringready
>> TRUE All nodes agree on the ring ['riak@172.31.44.73']
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19 September 2013 16:58, Alex Moore <amo...@basho.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Mike,
>>>
>>> Another option for your app.config would be to bind everything to
>>> "0.0.0.0", which will make Riak listen on all interfaces. This combined
>>> with using a domain name in the vm.args should prevent you from having to
>>> do renames/changing ips in the config files.
>>> If you do this, please consider using a VPC to limit access to the
>>> machines.
>>>
>>> A good resource to read over is Amazon's Riak Whitepaper:
>>> http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_NoSQL_Riak.pdf, as it goes
>>> through some operation considerations and tuning points that might be
>>> useful to you.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On September 19, 2013 at 6:52:29 PM, Mike Nathe (mna...@fathom-i.com)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi.
>>>
>>> we are trying to run Riak in the Amazon cloud (using OpsWorks).
>>> With every restart of the servers the ip addresses change so using an
>>> entry in the /etc/hosts instead of an IP looks like a great idea.
>>>
>>> Google's answer is:
>>>
>>> http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-December/006912.html
>>>
>>> Just to make sure: Riak only supports IP addresses and not DNS names in
>>> the config files.
>>> Though in your docs it still says:
>>> "Riak identifies other machines in the ring using Erlang identifiers
>>> (<hostname or IP>, ex: riak@10.9.8.7)."
>>>
>>>
>>> The error logged when changing our config from something
>>> like 172.31.41.138 to riaknode2-ext is:
>>>
>>> 2013-09-19 21:49:53.383 [error] <0.113.0> Supervisor riak_core_sup had
>>> child "http_riaknode2-ext:8098" started with
>>> webmachine_mochiweb:start([{name,"http_riaknode2-ext:8098"},{ip,"riaknode2-ext"},{port,8098},{nodelay,true},{log_dir,"log"},...])
>>> at undefined exit with reason
>>> {'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,einval}},[{mochiweb_socket_server,parse_options,2},{mochiweb_socket_server,start,1},{supervisor,do_start_child,2},{supervisor,start_children,3},{supervisor,init_children,2},{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}
>>> in context start_error
>>>
>>> Thanks a bunch.
>>>
>>> Have a great day.
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
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