Uwe - There is a name resolution bug in version 3.1, that is the issue you are seeing. If you would like to continue testing the most recent QA version, 3.1.1qa6 resolves the issue, you can get it here - http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/glusterfs-3.1.1qa6.tar.gz . Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com From: "Uwe Kastens" <kiste at kiste.org> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:19:32 AM Subject: setup trouble without DNS Hello, I tried to setup an testing environment inside a VMWare Workstation with 3 ubuntu 10.10 server. I can add the probes by hostname, which is configured in /etc/hosts root at ubuntu01:~# gluster peer statusNumber of Peers: 2 Hostname: ubuntu02 Uuid: b2dc0e78-f91a-4fa2-9faa-ce7d81a281fe State: Peer in Cluster (Connected) Hostname: ubuntu03 Uuid: f127902d-7f46-4438-bfeb-5ce25821ab15 State: Peer in Cluster (Connected) root at ubuntu01:~# gluster volume create store ubuntu02:/var/store ubuntu03:/var/store Creation of volume store has been unsuccessful But working with the IP Adresses is working root at ubuntu01:~# gluster volume create store 172.16.101.202:/var/store 172.16.101.203:/var/store Creation of volume store has been successful BR Uwe _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users