Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-11-06 Thread Mike Nathe
Hi. thanks a lot Seth for clarifying this. We changed the Chef recipe and it works great. Awesome! Mike On 1 October 2013 18:50, Seth Thomas wrote: > Mike, > > Based on the Chef line you have there, the issue is that you aren't > providing a FQDN. If the name is just "-int" then it isn't a

Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-10-01 Thread Seth Thomas
Mike, Based on the Chef line you have there, the issue is that you aren't providing a FQDN. If the name is just "-int" then it isn't a fully qualified domain name and therefore Erlang complains. Hopefully that clears up the confusion. On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Mike Nathe wrote: > Hi Al

Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Nathe
Hi Alex. thanks a bunch for the info and the link to the white paper. Unfortunately we still haven't been able to use a domain name in the vm.args successfully. We use Chef scripts to build our EC2 instances (OpsWorks). The only difference in the scripts is: # use domain name node.set['riak']['

Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Mike Nathe
hi. we are trying to run Riak in the Amazon cloud (using OpsWorks). With every restart of the servers the ip addresses change so using an entry in the /etc/hosts instead of an IP looks like a great idea. Google's answer is: http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-December

Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Alex Moore
Hey Mike,Another option for your app.config would be to bind everything to "0.0.0.0", which will make Riak listen on all interfaces.  This combined with using a domain name in the vm.args should prevent you from having to do renames/changing ips in the config files.  If you do this, please consider

Re: Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Alex Moore
Hi Mike,Just to make sure: Riak only supports IP addresses and not DNS names in the config files.Though in your docs it still says:"Riak identifies other machines in the ring using Erlang identifiers (, ex: riak@10.9.8.7)."Riak only accepts ip addresses in the app.config file, but the vm.args "-nam

Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

2013-09-19 Thread Mike Nathe
hi. we are trying to run Riak in the Amazon cloud (using OpsWorks). With every restart of the servers the ip addresses change so using an entry in the /etc/hosts instead of an IP looks like a great idea. Google's answer is: http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-December