Did you perhaps start up the second cluster with data from the test cluster? If you accidentally copied the system tables over, cassandra would recognize the saved tokens/ips from the test cluster and attempt to gossip with them.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Ashley Martens <amart...@ngmoco.com> wrote: > I just had a strange issue with a solandra ring. We had a two node test > cluster running in one data center and then started up a second 5 node > cluster in another data center. The seed in the first DC was in that DC and > the seed in the second DC was in the second DC, so the two rings should not > have talked to each other. However, they did. The old nodes joined the new > cluster. WTF? > > Anyone with any ideas why? >