Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-10-01 Thread Seth Thomas
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

Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Mike Nathe
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:

Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Alex Moore
Hi Mike,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)."Riak only accepts ip addresses in the app.config file, but the

Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Alex Moore
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 /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Mike Nathe
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: