ok I am setting up the gluster file system. I have the following completed - able to ssh into all three hosts from host1 without password prompting. - on each host I have host file entries for host{x}.private.net - on public dns, I have host{x}1.fg.net - each host has a public nic and private nic. - I have all three hosts added in the dashboard - I am able to ping all three on private and public nic from host1 When I go to add the hosts in the setup, it looks like 2 and 3 are fine with no errors, but host1 entry gives me "Host is not added in known_hosts" error. I am doing this setup from host1. It feels like there is a link to being on host1 and host1 having the error. I am still google fooing as we speak to try and find an error. The only thing I have not done, is setup host 2 and 3 to be able to ssh into all the other boxes. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Happy to share screen shots if it would help. Brad