# Client configuration

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/client-configuration/3710>\
**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [December 27, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/client-configuration/3710 "2022-12-27T11:10:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/client-configuration/3710/1 "2022-12-27T11:10:53Z")

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Two questions due some unusual network topology:

a) Is is necessary for a client to comunicate with all server nodes directly?  
Or is it enough to push a transaction to a single server - and this server takes care of sharding?

b) Is it necessary to list all server-machines in “/etc/foundationdb/fdb.cluster”?