Hi Mike
Thanks for posting here. I assume you are using the latest Shoal GMS
version.
You've rightly pointed out the lack of support for non multicast
environments such as EC2. As part of work for GlassFish 3.2 release,
that is in its beginning stages of development, we are looking into ways
to provide non-multicast support. Depending on how the problem is
approached it can be a high effort project but we are working on some
simple ideas to make it easier to implement.
You are welcome to join us and contribute - the team will be shortly
putting up a One Pager on a proposed design. Stay tuned.
--Shreedhar
On 4/13/11 11:38 AM, Mike Wiederhold wrote:
> I am using shoal as the clustering component for a distributed load generating tool I have created. I plan to use the tool in Amazon's cloud environment on ec2 instances. As a result there isn't a good way to cluster my machines since mdns clustering will not work correctly in a cloud environment.
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> Is there a way to give a node an ip address or domain name and have nodes cluster this way?
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> I am interested in writing a patch for this if the functionality doesn't exist. Would you say this is a high or low effort project?
>
> - Mike
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