Seems like a lot of complexity for a very small win (how often do you bootstrap new nodes? if you only need a handful of seeds, what's all that hard about listing them all on all nodes?). I prefer simple and predictable, and trying to do this with round robin DNS seems to be neither, to me.
b On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:55 PM, gabriele renzi <rff....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Avinash Lakshman > <avinash.laksh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We use anywhere from 3-5 seeds for clusters that have over 150 nodes. That >> should suffice for larger sizes too since they are only for initial >> discovery. > > > would it make sense to just use a round robin dns on the available > nodes and use that as seed? > I do not have a clear understanding of the bootstrap mechanics but I > have the impression that seed nodes do not have any special role, am I > wrong? >
