You can use a host name in config, but it will be resolved to an IP at startup and IP address will be broadcast.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 2/05/2012, at 2:55 PM, Tom Duffield wrote: > Hey, > There is a push to use Akamai IPA to accelerate traffic between our Cassandra > nodes. Ignoring all other complexities this introduces, is it possible to use > CNAMEs for broadcast addresses? I'm also assuming this restricts us to using > only the PropertyFileSnitch (since we are not strictly in the Amazon space) > > Thanks.