On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Hiller, Dean <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> wrote: >> I seem to remember problems with ghost nodes, etc. and I seem to remember if >> you are replacing a node and you don’t use the same ip, this can cause >> issues. Is this correct? > > If you don't use replace_token, this won't work at all. You'll get > "attempt to bootstrap node into range of live node" type error, > because the old ip will still own the token.
As a followup, this is actually incorrect. If you : 1) have dead (or live) node A with token X 2) start node B with token X and auto_bootstrap=false 3) node B will take over responsibility for token X from node A without bootstrapping, due to having a higher generation number This is a pretty good reason to make sure that you don't : a) have auto_bootstrap=false in your config file b) have cassandra set to auto start =Rob
