thanks, but if the communication between cluster nodes all resolve to "internal to internal", amazon will not charge the traffic as external traffic, right?
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:08 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > See http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1145?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1#12 > > The external dns will resolve to the internal IP when resolved internally. > > Using the internal IP means you are not charged for IO and it makes it > clear you do not expect this service to be access from outside. > > Cheers > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 5/09/2012, at 7:37 AM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/initialize/cluster_init > > > > > > says: > > > > " Note In the - seeds list property, include the internal IP addresses > of each seed node." > > > > why do I have to use internal IP? > > on a EC2 node, > > hostname resolution seems to directly give its internal IP: > > > > $ host aws1devbic1.biqa.ctgrd.com > > aws1devbic1.biqa.ctgrd.com is an alias for > ec2-50-17-3-229.compute-1.amazonaws.com. > > ec2-50-17-3-229.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 10.28.166.83 > > > > so using the public DNS or internal IP seems to be the same thing, or > something I'm missing ? > > > > Thanks > > Yang > > > >