Did you get this sorted ? Cheers
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 28/02/2013, at 2:25 AM, amulya rattan <talk2amu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have set up cassandra on EC2 with default localhost settings. Everything > works fine and dandy. I can run cli there, do inserts/writes, the lot. > However, when I try to read/write from another system on the same EC2 LAN, it > throws "All host pools mark down" error. However, I could easily ping the > Cassandra node from there. > > I presumed perhaps I should give proper system IP address, instead of > localhost, in the Cassandra machine for listen_address and rpc_address. > However, doing that causes Cassandra to throw "unable to bind address" for > 7000 port on start-up. Changing the port or adding filter for it and other > ports in iptables doesn't help. > > Could this be a firewall issue on EC2 or some setting I am missing in > configuration, for cassandra node be accessable to an external client? > > Any response is appreciated. > > ~Amulya