Thanks for providing the links Erick, very helpful. Although it is slightly inconvenient for me I now better understand the motivation.
On 10. Aug 2021, at 10:27, Erick Ramirez <erick.rami...@datastax.com<mailto:erick.rami...@datastax.com>> wrote: You are correct. Cassandra no longer allows invalid DC names for NetworkTopologyStrategy in CREATE KEYSPACE or ALTER KEYSPACE from 4.0 (CASSANDRA-12681<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12681>). FWIW, here is the NEWS.txt<https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-4.0.0/NEWS.txt#L190-L195> entry for reference. I'm not aware of a hack that would circumvent the validation. Cheers! Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Oliver Koch, Bianca Swanston Amtsgericht Kempten/Allg?u, Registernummer: 10655, Steuernummer 127/137/50792, USt.-IdNr. DE272208908
