Most likely because in the wild, you can't assume a reliable DNS. Just as an aside...This question comes up often in context of managing Cassandra clusters;especially in elastic situations. Most CMDBs assume a static name (host names/static IPs) for nodes. However this often proves to be mismatched against dynamic systems such as Cassandra; but of course not limited to it.
Regards Milind On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Sasha Dolgy <sdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > Silly question maybe ... but came to me in the Ec2 thread. Is there a > design reason why cassandra stores nodes as IP addresses and not > hostnames? > > -- > Sasha Dolgy > sasha.do...@gmail.com >
