It's used for failover and if you've got ZooKeeper running on a separate machine(s) you need a way to tell Solr where to look.
Thanks, Greg On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Oliver Schrenk <oliver.schr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering why there is the need to full specify all zookeeper hosts > when starting up Solr. For example using > > java -Djetty.port=7574 > -DzkHost=localhost:2181,zkhost1:2181,zkhost2:2181,zkhost3:2181 -jar start.jar > > Isn’t it enough to point to localhost:2181 and let the Zookeeper ensemble > itself where the other machines are? Or is this just used for failover in > case a zookeeper machine goes down? > > > Regards, > Oliver > >
