[Linux-HA] (no subject)

[David Hostetler]

Rauol,


   Thank you for your response.  I will have to look into the setup for
the vserver. 


Dave Hostetler
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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org
[mailto:linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org] On Behalf Of Raoul Bhatia
[IPAX]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:43 AM
To: General Linux-HA mailing list
Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] (no subject)

Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:33:20PM -0600, David Hostetler wrote:
>> I am looking to provide some failover for my machines, however in 
>> order for everything to work correctly the hostname has to be the 
>> same on both machines.  This is built into our software and cannot be

>> changed without some considerable cost.  My question is this:
>>
>> I'm going to have two machines clustered together via a crossover 
>> cable, can I identify them only by their IP?  Will HA fail if the
hostnames are
>> the same?   
> 
> That's probably a no go, i.e. heartbeat needs different hostnames.
> 
> Perhaps you could put your services in a chroot environment and set 
> the hostname there dymanically before the service starts.
> Maybe you could even try to full heartbeat by setting the hostname 
> after the heartbeat started, but I'm really not sure if that's going 
> to work.

using a vserver/xen/openvz/etc. setup would possibly solve this issue

cheers,
raoul
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