Fwd: [Spread-users] spread on ec2

[John Robinson]

Jake Luciani wrote:

> Second, is the ec2 internal domain name is too long for spread to 
> handle.  So I shortened them so s1 and s2.

...

> Other spread users have any suggestions or ideas? Is it a performace hit 
> to increase the allowed domain length?

We solved this by assigning spread names that are essentially an 
encoding of the IP address:

Spread_Segment  283.190.205.255:4803 {
     N283190205092  283.190.205.92
}

Spread_Segment  174.205.121.255:4803 {
     N174205121201 174.205.121.201
}

No need to lengthen spread's messages at all.

/jr