[Linux-cluster] CS4 : problem with multiple IP addresses on hostname

Patrick Caulfield pcaulfie at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 14:06:59 UTC 2007


Alain Moulle wrote:
> Hi
> 
> CS/cman refuse to configure/start (cman_tool -w join) if gethostbyname() returns
> (from DNS) more than one adress for a Node name.
> 
> Is there a workaround for this ?
> 
> Why not allow IP-addresses to be specified in CS configuration-files/cmd-lines
> instead of names to work-around the problem ?


Setting the IP address in cluster.conf and starting the cluster like
this works:

cman_tool join -d -n 192.168.1.2


What you have sounds like a bug, can you give us some more information
please ? cluster.conf files, errors from 'cman_tool join -d' and output
from dnslookup/host ?

Thanks

Patrick




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