Hello Alex, Thats interesting. Does that mean if I lose a VM, I can spin a new VM with the same DNS name and myid file, attach it to the cluster, and ZK will fill in the data bits?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Alexander Shraer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > The id uniquely identifies a server during its lifetime. IP and port can be > change during runtime but the id remains. > > Also theoretically its possible for multiple servers to have the same IP > and port, although probably no one will define it like that :) > > Alex > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Ben Hsu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > A friend at work asked me why the myid file is needed. Can't zookeeper > > divine which node a request is coming from based on the source IP and > port? > > >
