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Updated the slightly confusing documentation on how to join the clusters over WAN. Also the inputs from #1656 is taken in account in this documentation update.
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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ only contain server nodes. Client nodes send requests to a datacenter-local serv
so they do not participate in WAN gossip. Client requests are forwarded by local
servers to a server in the target datacenter as necessary.
The next step is to ensure that all the server nodes join the WAN gossip pool:
The next step is to ensure that all the server nodes join the WAN gossip pool (include all the servers in all the datacenters):
```text
$ consul join -wan <server 1> <server 2> ...
@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ $ curl http://localhost:8500/v1/catalog/nodes?dc=dc1
$ curl http://localhost:8500/v1/catalog/nodes?dc=dc2
...
```
In order to persist the `join` information, the following can be added to the `consul` configuration in each of the `server` nodes in the cluster. For example, in `dc1` server nodes:
```
...
"retry_join_wan":[
"dc2-server-1",
...
"dc2-server-N",
],
...
```
There are a few networking requirements that must be satisfied for this to
work. Of course, all server nodes must be able to talk to each other. Otherwise,