Re: [akka-user] Why should nodes usually not include themselves in seed node list?

2016-04-08 Thread Patrik Nordwall
It's only the first node in the seed nodes list that is special. It's only that one that will join itself to bootstrap the cluster, after it has tried joining the other nodes. Sorting is fine. For the AWS part you might get something from this blog post: http://chrisloy.net/2014/05/11/akka-cluste

[akka-user] Why should nodes usually not include themselves in seed node list?

2016-04-07 Thread Curt Siffert
Hi, when discovering seed nodes dynamically, why is it important for every node (except for one) to not include itself in the seed node list? How could split brain happen if all nodes have the same list order of all seed nodes? >From what I understand, split-brain can only happen if multiple n