When using the C# driver, should an arbiter be included in the connection string?

[Martin Owen]

Hello,

I've got a replica set of 3 servers - a primary, a secondary, and an
arbiter. I know that I have to list my servers in a comma-separated
list in my connection string, but I was wondering if I should include
the arbiter server in this list? It's never going to be connected to
by the driver itself so I assume it can be left out? Is there any harm
in including it in the list?

Cheers,

Martin Owen

[Nat]

Including it should do no harm. It will be used as seed list to provide list of servers available in the replicaset.

[Gijs]

According to http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Set+Internals
arbiters cannot be seed hosts. So as far as I know arbiters shouldn't
be in the list.

[Nat]

That's right but it will be changed in 1.9. 

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-2547

[Martin Owen]

Thanks, I think I'll leave the arbiter out of my connection strings
until I hear anything different.

Martin

On 13 July 2011 11:26, Nat <nat....@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's right but it will be changed in 1.9.
> https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-2547
>

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