Give the app the same nodes you have in the seed lists. Cheers
----------------- Aaron Morton Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 20/07/2013, at 9:32 AM, sankalp kohli <[email protected]> wrote: > With Auto discovery, you can provide the DC you are local to and it will only > use hosts from that. > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Shahab Yunus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I want my Thrift client(s) (using hector 1.1-3) to randomly connect to any > node in the Cassandra (1.2.4) cluster. > > 1- One way is that I pass in a comma separated list of hosts and ports to the > CassandraHostConfguration object. > 2- The other option is that I configure the auto discovery of hosts (through > setAutoDiscoverHost and related methods) on CassandraHostConfguration object > while passing only one pair of host/port. > > Is one way better than another or both have their pros and cons according to > the usecase. In case of 1, it can become unwieldy if the cluster grows. In > number 2, would I have to be extra careful while adding/removing nodes (will > it conflict with bootstrapping) or is it business as usual? > > I don't expect to have a multi-DC setup for near future but I believe that > would be one consideration. > > Is there any other method that I am missing? Is it dependent or varies with > the client API that I am using? > > > Thanks a lot. > > Regards, > Shahab >
