Re: Allowing configuration of advertised hostname

[Parth Chandra <pa...@apache.org>]

Hi Harrison,

  Yes, a patch would be useful for this. (Sorry for getting to this so late)

Parth

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Harrison Mebane <ha...@svds.com> wrote:

> I filed a JIRA on this (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4935?filter=-2), but I am
> posting here as well for visibility.
>
> I have just completed a distributed installation of Drill on an existing
> cluster, with each drillbit in its own Docker container.  This required an
> alteration to the Drill source code to allow for the drillbits to advertise
> a different host address (i.e. the Docker host address) to Zookeeper.
> Otherwise, Zookeeper just receives the IP of the Docker containers
> themselves, and the containers are unable to communicate with each other
> directly.  I have added a configuration
> parameter, 'drill.exec.rpc.bit.advertised.host', and modified the code to
> use this variable as the host address when populated.
>
> If there is interest in incorporating this property into the main Drill
> codebase, I am happy to submit a pull request.
>
> Thanks,
> Harrison
>