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| author | Joan Touzet <joant@atypical.net> | 2017-08-01 18:37:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Joan Touzet <joant@atypical.net> | 2017-08-01 18:37:22 -0400 |
| commit | f728209102a84d669f81431dea0bd0d60655a12f (patch) | |
| tree | effe45c2344c932e600ac23b6dd01a041b08b92e | |
| parent | 1053aee707753e072cc2b7b5ca9d64297124d9e2 (diff) | |
| download | couchdb-f728209102a84d669f81431dea0bd0d60655a12f.tar.gz | |
Update advice on the use of -name (and NOT -sname)
Closes #729. See the ticket for additional information.
| -rw-r--r-- | rel/overlay/etc/vm.args | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/rel/overlay/etc/vm.args b/rel/overlay/etc/vm.args index b69ad829b..acb4571b8 100644 --- a/rel/overlay/etc/vm.args +++ b/rel/overlay/etc/vm.args @@ -10,10 +10,22 @@ # License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under # the License. -# Each node in the system must have a unique name. A name can be short -# (specified using -sname) or it can by fully qualified (-name). There can be -# no communication between nodes running with the -sname flag and those running -# with the -name flag. +# Each node in the system must have a unique name. These are specified through +# the Erlang -name flag, which takes the form nodename@hostname. CouchDB +# recommends the following values for this flag: +# +# 1. If this is a single node, not in a cluster, use: +# -name couchdb@127.0.0.1 +# 2. If DNS is configured for this host, use the FQDN, such as: +# -name couchdb@my.host.domain.com +# 3. If DNS isn't configured for this host, use IP addresses only, such as: +# -name couchdb@192.168.0.1 +# +# Do not rely on tricks with /etc/hosts or libresolv to handle anything +# other than the above 3 approaches correctly. +# +# Multiple CouchDBs running on the same machine can use couchdb1@, couchdb2@, +# etc. {{node_name}} # All nodes must share the same magic cookie for distributed Erlang to work. |