On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:21 PM, David McNelis <dmcne...@agentisenergy.com>wrote:
> I want to make sure I'm not seeing things from a weird perspective. I have > two Cassandra instances where one is set to be the seed, with autobootstap > disabled and its seed being 127.0.0.1. > > The second instance has autobootstrap enabled and the seed IP set to the IP > of the first node. > > I start the first node, then the second, with no errors. However, when I > run: > > bin/nodetool -h localhost ring > > My output shows me only the local machine in my ring. When I run: > > bin/nodetool -h localhost join seedNodeIP > > It tells me I'm already a part of the ring. > > My question is which is correct? I thought, from the documentation, that > both of my nodes would show up in the ring if I ran 'ring' in nodetool. > > This is a new cluster. > > -- > *David McNelis* > Lead Software Engineer > Agentis Energy > www.agentisenergy.com > o: 630.359.6395 > c: 219.384.5143 > > *A Smart Grid technology company focused on helping consumers of energy > control an often under-managed resource.* > > > Do use 127.0.0.1 as a seed (except for single node test clusters) Use a route-able ip that other cluster nodes can use to reach that node.