> node that fail had the token id of 0 (this is the seed node - right?). Seed nodes are listed in the seeds: section of the cassandra.yaml file.
Using 0 as a token for a node is normal. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 26/04/2012, at 10:18 AM, Dave Brosius wrote: > 0 is a perfectly valid id. > > node - 1 is modulo the maximum token value. that token range is 0 - 2**127 > > so node - 1 in this case is 2**127 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Deno Vichas" <d...@syncopated.net> > Sent: Wed, April 25, 2012 18:11 > Subject: Re: EC2 Best Practices > > > > has anybody written up anything related to recovery for fails in EC2? > > this morning i woke up to find 1 (of 4) nodes marked as unreachable. i used > the datastax (1.0.7) ami to set u p my clu ster and the node that fail had > the token id of 0 (this is the seed node - right?). the docs says to replace > a failed node to set the token to failed node - 1, which i don't think would > work. luckily rebooting the machine > > but i'm left with the question of what should i do if node with the token ID > of 0 fails and should i even have a node with that ID. > > > thanks, > deno > > > > On 2/23/2012 11:21 AM, aaron morton wrote: >> General EC2 setup. >> >> http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/install/install_ami >> http://wiki.apache.o rg/cassa ndra/CloudConfig >> >> Cassandra with a VPN on EC2. From memory it talks about using the VPN within >> EC2. >> http://blog.vcider.com/2011/09/running-cassandra-on-a-virtual-network-in-ec2/ >> >> Clients need a single port (9160) to talk to the cluster. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> >> >> ----------------- >> Aaron Morton >> Freelance Developer >> @aaronmorton >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> >> On 24/02/2012, at 3:46 AM, Philip Shon wrote: >> >>> Are there any good resources for best practices when running Cassandra >>> within EC2? I'm particularly interested in the security issues, when the >>> servers communicating w/ Cassandra are outside of EC2. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Phil > >
