> The other nodes may be trying to connect to it - it may be listed as a > seed node on the other machines? The other nodes will be looking for it.
Change the Cluster Name in the yaml file. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 30/09/2012, at 12:04 AM, Tim Wintle <timwin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >