On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:29 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > I'm interested to know more about the problems using the CLI. > > Aaron. > > On 2 Apr 2011, at 15:07, Bob Futrelle wrote: > >> Connecting via CLI to local host with a port number has never been >> successful for me in Snow Leopard. No amount of reading suggestions and >> varying the approach has worked. So I'm going to talk to Cassandra via its >> API, from Java. >> >> But I noticed that in some code samples that call the API from Java, ports >> are also in play. In using Derby in Java I've never had to designate any >> ports. Is such a strategy available with Cassandra? >> >> - Bob Futrelle >> Northeastern U. >> > >
I realize you do not want to open ports at all. One thing I do is leverage the private loop back addresses that are on each computer 127.0.0.1,127.0.0.2-127.255.255.254.
