> I am happy to document this in wiki some place if it might help others.
We could add this to the document I referred to. > > A) Is there any other 'best practices' to keep DNS / HOST LOOKUPs straight? I'd ask a sysadmin, but I think you just need to keep things "consistant" meaning always in the same order. > A2) would it be safer if I used the IP addresses? Or reverse DNS > required even then? Might not work in all cases. > > B) I do miss the short hand aliases in /etc/hosts. Is there a way to have > these aliases, without interfering with Hbase / zookeeper? You should still be able to keep them in there, they just need to be second to the FQDN. J-D
