What version of Cassandra are you using. If you're using 1.2.0 (or *were* using 1.2.0 when the 2 nodes were removed), you might be seeing https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5167.
> Or I have to delete the row in the table That should work. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Shahryar Sedghi <shsed...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a 4 node cluster in my dev environment and due to resource > limitation, I had to remove two nodes. Nodetool status shows only two nodes > on both machines , but peers table on one machine still shows entries of > the nodes with a null rpc address. Thrift has no problem with it but new > Binary protocol client is slow connecting to that node because of the > entries. > > Nodetool remove does recognize those removed nodes.It there a way through > the commands to remove those entries, Or I have to delete the row in the > table. > > Thanks in advance > > Shahryar >