All, I had a node in my 8-node production 1.2.8 cluster have a serious problem and need to be removed and rebuilt. However, after doing nodetool removenode and then bootstrapping a new node on the same IP address, the new node somehow ended up with a different datacenter name (the rest of the nodes are in dc $NAME, and the new one is in dc $NAME6934724 — as in, a string of seemingly random numbers appended to the correct name). How can I force it to change DC names back to what it should be?
I’m working with 500+GB per node here so bootstrapping it again is not a huge issue, but I’d prefer to avoid it anyway. I am NOT able to change the node’s IP address at this time so I’m stuck with bootstrapping a new node in the same place, which my gut feeling tells me might be part of the problem. Any insight anyone can give me is highly appreciated. Thanks, -- Josh Sholes
