Sounds like http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.user/14498 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2371
Aaron On 3 Apr 2011, at 09:42, Jason Harvey wrote: > Greetings all, > > I removetoken'd a node a few weeks back and completely shut down the > node which owned that token. Every few days, it shows back up in the > ring as "Down" and I have to removetoken it again. Thinking it was an > issue with gossip, I shut the ring completely down, deleted all of the > hints (just in case), and brought it backup. Yet again, it popped up a > couple days later. > > I completely terminated the instance which the node was running on, so > I know it definitely isn't coming back. > > Any ideas? This is on 0.7.4. > > > Thanks, > Jason