You can add a DNS entry with multiple IP's or something like a elastic ip which will keep switching between the active machines. or you can also write your custom seed provider class. Not sure if you will get a quorum when there dev's are on vacation :)
Regards, </VJ> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Stephen Pope <stephen.p...@quest.com>wrote: > Is there a way to set up a single node cluster without specifying > anything about the specific machine in cassandra.yaml? I’ve cleared the > values from listen_address and rpc_address, but it complains upon startup > that no other nodes can be seen (presumably because the ip in the seeds > doesn’t match).**** > > ** ** > > The reason I’m trying to do this is because we deploy cassandra on each > developer’s machine, and we’d like to be able to use our client across > machines using the hostname. Ideally, none of the developers would have to > change the base config that gets deployed. **** > > ** ** > > The default config file works as a single node cluster, but won’t let you > talk to it across machines (we’re using windows, in case it’s relevant).** > ** > > ** ** > > Cheers,**** > > Steve**** >