this is a "Very Bad" idea. do not expose your riak instance over a public ip address. riak has no internal security mechanism to keep people from doing very bad things to your data, configuration, etc.
-Alexander Sicular @siculars On Mar 5, 2012, at 12:43 AM, Tim Robinson wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a few questions on networking configs for riak. > > I have both a public ip and a private ip for each riak node. I want Riak to > communicate over the private ip addresses to take advantage of free > bandwidth, but I would also like the option to interface with riak using the > public ip's if need be (i.e. for testing / demo's etc). > > I'm gathering that the way people to this is by setting up app.config to use > ip "0.0.0.0" to listen for all ip's. I'm also gathering vm.args needs to have > a unique name in the cluster so I would need to use the hostname for the > -name option (i.e. r...@www.fake-node-domain-name-1.com). > > My hosts file would contain: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > x.x.x.x www.fake-node-domain-name-1.com mynode-1 > .... > > where x.x.x.x is the public ip not the private. > > This is where I start to get lost. > > As it sits, if I attempt to join using the private ip's i will get the > unreachable error - yet I can telnet connect to/from the equivalent nodes. > > So I could add a second IP to the hosts file, but since I need to keep the > public one as well, how is that riak is going to use the private ips for > gissip ring, hinted hand-off, ... etc etc. > > There's obviously some networking basics I am missing. > > Any guidance from those of you who have done this? > > Thanks. > Tim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
