For 4.2, I'll try and put in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4078 soon.
Not sure about the behavior your seeing - you might want to file a JIRA issue. - Mark On Feb 15, 2013, at 8:17 PM, Gary Yngve <gary.yn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been unable to get the collections create API to work with > createNodeSet containing hostnames, both localhost and external hostnames. > I've only been able to get it working when using explicit IP addresses. > > It looks like zk stores the IP addresses in the clusterstate.json and > live_nodes. Is it possible that Solr Cloud is not doing any hostname > resolving but just looking for an explicit match with createNodeSet? This > is kind of annoying, in that I am working with EC2 instances and consider > it pretty lame to need to use elastic IPs for internal use. I'm hacking > around it now (looking up the eth0 inet addr on each machine), but I'm not > happy about it. > > Has anyone else found a better solution? > > The reason I want to specify explicit nodes for collections is so I can > have just one zk ensemble managing collections across different > environments that will go up and down independently of each other. > > Thanks, > Gary