The seed names should match what the seeds advertise as listen_address. I can't think of a reason host names shouldn't work, but as Peter said, using host names is a bad idea anyway.
2011/9/25 Radim Kolar <h...@sendmail.cz>: > I just discovered that using host names for seed nodes in cassandra.yaml do > not work. This is done on purpose? > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com