[ovs-discuss] Controller reference as name

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Dec 7 17:33:42 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:06:52PM -0200, Wanderson Paim wrote:
> I'm trying a loadbalancer implementation with DNS and I need to set the
> controller of the vswitch as a domain name instead of its IP address.
> 
> Example:
> ovs-vsctl set-controller br0 tcp:controllerx:6633
> 
> Such "controllerx" has the appropriate IP reference of the controller at
> the DNS Server. I also tried setting it at /etc/hosts. I always got the
> same error shown at "ovs-vsctl list controller":
> ...
> status     :   last_error="Address family not supported by protocol"
> ...
> 
> Is there any way to use controller name instead of IP address in the
> "ovs-vsctl set-controller" command? If not is there an alternative?

No, that's not supported.  You can resolve the DNS name in advance, then
set the controller based on what it resolved to.



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