[MooseFS-Users] [v4] Suggestions about HA

[Gandalf C. <gan...@gm...>]

In v4, HA depends on DNS. We have to add one A record for every master server.
This is good only in some environments, where you have public access
to a DNS server.
As some users could deploy MooseFS as a SAN, with limited (if not at
all) internet access, using a DNS server is not a simple task.

Could I suggest something similiar like Consul? It provide a DNS
interface to query and also expose a very simple API that could be
used by master server to register itself (and automatically update the
DNS record)

Doing this doesn't require any internet access in SAN nor expose
MooseFS to DNS attacks.
Using a locally configured DNS server is still not trivial, you have
to manually update all locale dns server instances (obviously, you
wan't run with just 1 server) and so on.

Any workaround ?