Gossip should help them converge on the truth. Can you give an example of the different views from nodetool ring ?
Also check the logs to see if there is anything been logged about endpoints. Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 9 May 2011, at 18:11, Venkat Rama wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. I restarted entire cluster and started nodes at the > same time. However, I still see the issue. The view is not consistant. Am > running 0.7.5. > In general, if a node with bad ring view starts first, then I guess the > restart also doesnt help as it might be propagating its view. Is this > assumption correct? > > > > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:02 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > It is possible to change IP address of a node, background > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/change-node-IP-address-td6197607.html > > > If you have already bought a new node back with a different IP and the nodes > in the cluster have different views of the ring (nodetool ring) you should > see > http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.7/troubleshooting/index#view-of-ring-differs-between-some-nodes > > > What version are you on and what does nodetool ring say? > > Hope that helps. > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 9 May 2011, at 12:24, Venkat Rama wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to bring up a new node (with different IP) to replace a dead >> node on cassandra 0.7.5. Rather than bootstrap, I am copying the SSTable >> files to the new node(backed up files) as my data runs into several GB. >> Although the node successfully joins the ring, some of the ring nodes still >> seem to point to the old dead node as seen from ring command. Is there a >> way to notify all nodes about the new node? Am looking for options that can >> bring the cluster back to it original state in a faster and reliable manner >> since I do have all the SSTable files. >> One option I looked at was to remove all system table and restart the entire >> cluster. But I loose the schemas with this approach. >> >> Thanks in advance for your reply. >> >> VR >> >> > >
