You can set listen_address in cassandra.yaml to a hostname (http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml_r.html).
Cassandra will use the IP address returned by a DNS query for that hostname. On AWS you don't have to assign an elastic IP, all instances will come with a public IP that lasts its lifetime (if you use ec2-classic or your VPC is set up to assign them). Note that whatever hostname you set in a nodes listen_address, it will need to return the private IP as AWS instances only have network access via there private address. Traffic to a instances public IP is NATed and forwarded to the private address. So you may as well just use the nodes IP address. If you run hadoop on instances in the same AWS region it will be able to access your Cassandra cluster via private IP. If you run hadoop externally just use the public IPs. If you run in a VPC without public addressing and want to connect from external hosts you will want to look at a VPN (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_VPN.html). Ben Bromhead Instaclustr | www.instaclustr.com | @instaclustr | +61 415 936 359 On 13/05/2014, at 4:31 AM, Huiliang Zhang <zhl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Cassandra returns ips of the nodes in the cassandra cluster for further > communication between hadoop program and the casandra cluster. Is there a way > to configure the cassandra cluster to return hostnames instead of ips? My > cassandra cluster is on AWS and has no elastic ips which can be accessed > outside AWS. > > Thanks, > Huiliang > >
