Rudy, That used to be a problem but the remove command was added for exactly this situation.
riak-admin remove node In the code: https://github.com/basho/riak/blob/master/rel/files/riak-admin#L95 Best, Alexander On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:52, Rudy X. Desjardins <r...@sandbenders.ca> wrote: > Hello Riak devs (and users)... is there any way to remove an 'old' > node from a ring, without issuing 'riak-admin leave' on the node > itself? I have a cluster running on AWS and one of the machines needed > to reboot, and the cluster was pointed to it's (volatile) dynamic AWS > 1918 ip address, vs a public ip/dns name... so, now the node is back > up and I've re-added it after doing a 'riak-admin reip ... ...' on it, > but the other nodes still see the old node name/ip as a ring member. > > Ie: ri...@11.22.33.44 used to be a member, it was re-booted and now > has ip 11.22.33.55... so I've re-ip'ed it and re-added it to the > cluster, and it's up and running fine, but now I have both the new and > old node name as ring members and no way of re-acquiring the old ip... > ri...@11.22.33.44 *and* ri...@11.22.33.55 are both listed as ring > members. > > What's the best approach/practice here? Is it safe/typical to just > leave the 'dead' ring member listed, or is there another way to get > rid of it? > > Thanks in advance... > > -- > Rudy X. Desjardins > pgp: 96FFA628 > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
