I have set up a 3 node system. Gluster has its own backend network and I have tried entering the FQDN hosts via ssh as follows... gfs1.gluster.private 10.10.45.11 gfs2.gluster.private 10.10.45.12 gfs3.gluster.private 10.10.45.13 I entered at /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 gfs1.gluster.private 10.10.45.11 gfs2.gluster.private 10.10.45.12 gfs3.gluster.private 10.10.45.13 but on the CLI host gfs1.gluster.private returns [root@ovirt1 etc]# host gfs1.gluster.private Host gfs1.gluster.private not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [root@ovirt1 etc]# I guess this is the wrong hosts file, resolver.conf lists files first for lookup...