Akka remote actor server discovery

Question

I would like to deploy a remote actors software made with akka on a cluster. The system is composed of several worker nodes and a single master node. The problem is that I canno

Answer 1

Unless all nodes share some common knowledge, I think your solution would have to rely on IP broadcast. Broadcasting is defined as sending a packet to all network nodes on a subnet, so if your master node does that while all worker nodes listen for it, you should be able to connect them all without knowing the IP addresses a priori.

I haven't coded this in Scala, but here's a fairly readable example of how to broadcast messages in java: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/datagrams/broadcasting.html. It should be straightforward to adapt it to Scala using the same classes.