new cassandra node can't gossip with seed

Question

I am trying to spin up a new node using cassandra 2.0.7. Both nodes are at Digital Ocean. The seed node is up and running and I can telnet to port 7000 on that host from the

Answer 1

The real issue here is that you're attempting to spin up Cassandra with no data and auto_bootstrap enabled on all nodes.

To JRun's point "chicken and egg" is really a "I'm trying to auto bootstrap nodes with no nodes to tell it what to do" situation.

You need to disable auto_bootstrap in your cassandra.yaml file on one of the nodes (preferably a seed).

Please see: DataStax Cassandra 2.1 Documentation

Specifically: auto_bootstrap: false (Add this setting only when initializing a fresh cluster with no data.)

So, to resolve this... Simply modify your cassandra.yaml file similar to the below example:

Three Node C* Cluster WITH NO DATA

IP Address Info:

• Node 1: 192.168.1.10
• Node 2: 192.168.1.11
• Node 3: 192.168.1.12

Originally Designated Seeds:

Node 1 (192.168.1.10) / Node 3 (192.168.1.12)

cassandra.yaml -> - seeds: "192.168.1.10,192.168.1.12"

auto_bootstrap is enabled by default

Newly Designated Seed: Node 3 (192.168.1.12)

**Make this change on all three nodes: **

cassandra.yaml -> - seeds: "192.168.1.12"

Make this change on the seed node, in addition to the above cassandra.yaml -> auto_bootstrap: false

(More than likely, the auto_bootstrap entry won't exist, so go ahead and throw it in the yaml somewhere).

After making the above changes, restart all of the cassandra processes.

You should be fine, once they all fully start up and you'll be able to go back and adjust your seeds the way you'd like!