[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#600095: Bug#600095: cman tells corosync to bind to 127.0.0.1 by default in squeeze

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 05:45:46PM +0100, Tim Small wrote:
> Package: cman
> Version: 3.0.12-2
> Severity: important
> 
> By default cman tells corosync to bind to 127.0.0.1, and doesn't
> document how to get it to do otherwise (I'd guess because it's doing a
> lookup on the nodename, and somehow ending up with 127.0.0.1 - maybe
> this is different from the default RHEL config).
> 
> Some sort of working-out-of-the-box example cluster.conf would seem
> essential if anyone wanted to get this package to work without screaming
> a lot.
> 
> <cluster name="fish" config_version="1">
>         <clusternodes>
>                 <clusternode name="squeeze-test" nodeid="1">
>                         <multicast addr="224.0.0.1" interface="eth0"/>
>                 </clusternode>
> 
>                 <clusternode name="squeeze-test2" nodeid="2">
>                         <multicast addr="224.0.0.1" interface="eth0"/>
>                 </clusternode>
>         </clusternodes>
> 
>         <cman two_node="1" expected_votes="1">
>         </cman>
> </cluster>
This looks more like a bug in your configuration. Please make sure your
hostname doesn't resolve to 127.0..1.1 or similar.
Cheers,
 -- Guido