Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm coming up with, too. I'm writing shell
scripts right now to handle that, I'll post them in a day or two when I've got
them finalized.
jeff
On Dec 29, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Jeff Kirkell wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> I was thinking of a solution for the same issue. Since your hostname changes
> with EC2. My thought was to have an automated script execute which pulls the
> new hostname (or IP) and use SED or something to update the app.config and
> vm.args followed by a Riak reip command. The only trick is that you may need
> to store the current in a file so you know what to replace later.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:34 AM, jeffrey k eliasen <j...@jke.net> wrote:
> This did't appear to work for me. I changed the line in app.config to:
> {http, [ {"127.0.0.1", 8098 }, { "0.0.0.0", 8098 } ]},
> … and the node wouldn't start. When I changed it to:
> {http, [ {"127.0.0.1", 8098 }, { "192.168.1.238", 8098 } ]},
> … the node started just fine.
>
> Idiot check… I realized it was trying to bind to localhost twice, once when I
> specified 127.0.0.1 and again with 0.0.0.0. Just for anyone else following
> the thread, the line should *just* specify 0.0.0.0:
> {http, [ {"0.0.0.0", 8098 } ]},
>
> Another question with vm.args… Hostnames are allocated dynamically in my
> network, so I don't specify the hostname in vm.args. The name option is set
> with a name unique to the data drive holding all the riak state:
> -name node1
>
> When the node starts, I see that the name is expanded to include the hostname:
> ring_members : ['no...@machinexyz.local.net']
>
> I don't know from boot to boot what the hostname was the last time I booted
> (hence my other question a few days ago asking whether hostname mattered). Do
> I need to construct a way to track this across boots? Or is it enough that
> the name argument specifies a name that is unique on the network and
> disregards the host name?
>
> jeff
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Sean Cribbs wrote:
>
>> Also make sure that your node names (-name in vm.args) do not include the IP
>> address, but use a hostname that is (hopefully) managed by the server
>> handing out IP addresses. If the node name includes the IP address, your
>> Riak node won't be reachable when the machine restarts (and it might not
>> even start up).
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Grant Schofield <gr...@basho.com> wrote:
>> The only way to do that is to bind to every current IP on the system by
>> using 0.0.0.0 as the setting.
>>
>> Grant
>>
>>
>> On Dec 3, 2011, at 7:43 AM, jeffrey eliasen wrote:
>>
>>> My Riak cluster is on a network that uses dynamic IPs, so each node gets a
>>> different IP address at reboot. How do I indicate in app.config that I want
>>> to bind to an interface (such as 'eth0') regardless of it's IP address
>>> rather than to a specific IP address?
>>>
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