Hi,
I have a 4 node cluster 1.0.3 with replication_factor = 3. QUORUM: Returns the record with the most recent timestamp once a quorum (51%+) of replicas has responded. It also triggers a read repair I am using QUORUM to read and write data so I assume that if I get response from 3 servers I sould be ok. but every time when 1 node is down I get timeout when I try to read data 2012-01-09 11:58:33,325 WARN [me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.CassandraHostRetryService] - <Downed 192.168.80.31(192.168.80.31):9160 host still appears to be down: Unable to open transport to 192.168.80.31(192.168.80.31):9160 , java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect> What am I missing? Thanks Michael