It is recommended that seed list should be same in all server so all server on same state. It should be Lan IP not Loopback IP. In seed node, auto bootstrap should be false 2 seed should be enough.
In your case it should be like: node1: seeds: node1, autobootstrap=false node2: seeds: node1,autobootstrap=true node3: seeds: node1, autobootstrap=true node4: seeds: node1, autobootstrap=true node5: seeds: node1, autobootstrap=true or node1: seeds: node1,node2, autobootstrap=false node2: seeds: node1,node2,autobootstrap=false (set it false after bootstrap) node3: seeds: node1,node2, autobootstrap=true node4: seeds: node1, node2,autobootstrap=true node5: seeds: node1,node2, autobootstrap=true /Samal On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Selva Kumar <wwgse...@yahoo.com> wrote: > We have a 5 node Cassandra cluster. We use version 0.7.4. What is the > recommended seed configuration. Here are some configurations, i have > noticed. > > Example 1: > ----------- > One node being seed to itself. > node1: > seeds: node1, autobootstrap=false > node2: > seeds: node1, node3, autobootstrap=true > node3: > seeds: node2, node4, autobootstrap=true > node4: > seeds: node3, node5, autobootstrap=true > node5: > seeds: node1, node2, autobootstrap=true > > Example 2: > ----------- > node1: > seeds: node5,node2, autobootstrap=true > node2: > seeds: node1, node3, autobootstrap=true > node3: > seeds: node2, node4, autobootstrap=true > node4: > seeds: node3, node5, autobootstrap=true > node5: > seeds: node1, node2, autobootstrap=true > > Thanks > Selva > > >