Check system.peers table to see if the IP is still there. If so edit the table and remove the offending IP.
You are probably running into this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6053 Regards, Carlos Juzarte Rolo Cassandra Consultant Pythian - Love your data rolo@pythian | Twitter: cjrolo | Linkedin: *linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo <http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>* Mobile: +31 6 159 61 814 | Tel: +1 613 565 8696 x1649 www.pythian.com On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Tom van den Berge < tom.vandenbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have removed a node with nodetool removenode, which completed ok. > Nodetool status does not list the node anymore. > > But since then, Im seeing messages in my other nodes log files referring > to the removed node: > > INFO [GossipStage:38] 2015-10-14 11:18:26,322 Gossiper.java (line 968) > InetAddress /10.68.56.200 is now DOWN > INFO [GossipStage:38] 2015-10-14 11:18:26,324 StorageService.java (line > 1891) Removing tokens [85070591730234615865843651857942052863] for / > 10.68.56.200 > > > These two messages appear every minute. > I've tried nodetool removenode again (Host ID not found) and removenode > force (no token removals in process). > The jmx unsafeAssassinateEndpoint gives a NullPointerException. > > What can I do to remove the node entirely? > > > -- --
