On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 18:53 +0000, Xu, Zaili wrote: > Hi, > > I have an existing Cassandra Cluster. I removed a node from the cluster. Then > I decommissioned the removed node, stopped it, updated its config so that it > only has itself as the seed and in the cassandra-topology.properties file, > even deleted the data, commitlog, and saved_caches. But as soon as I start it > backup it is able to join back to the cluster. How does this node know the > information of the existing cluster and was able to join it ?
The other nodes may be trying to connect to it - it may be listed as a seed node on the other machines? Tim
