I have a node which I know for certain was a cluster member last week. It showed in nodetool status as DN. When I attempted to replace it today, I got this message
ERROR [main] 2019-03-14 14:40:49,208 CassandraDaemon.java:654 - Exception encountered during startup java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot replace_address /10.xx.xx.xxx.xx because it doesn't exist in gossip at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.prepareReplacementInfo(StorageService.java:449) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.8.jar:2.2.8] DN 10.xx.xx.xx 388.43 KB 256 6.9% bdbd632a-bf5d-44d4-b220-f17f258c4701 1e Under what conditions does this happen? ---------------- Thank you