The comments here so far are correct. Cassandra itself will never open a thrift connection. Thrift is only for clients. Not sure what exactly you are seeing but I don't think it's cassandra.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Niteesh kumar <nitees...@directi.com> wrote: > not only a node make connection to other nodes. i can also see nodes making > connection to itself on port 9160. > > > > On Tuesday 02 October 2012 07:42 PM, Viktor Jevdokimov wrote: >> >> not a thrift por > >