Re: quick question on seed nodes configuration

2013-06-26 Thread aaron morton
> I had seed nodes ip1,ip2,ip3 as the seeds but what I didn't realize was then > that these nodes had themselves as seeds. I am assuming that should never be > done, is that correct. The only reason nodes listing them selves as seeds can be a pain is during bootstrap. Seeds nodes will not str

Re: quick question on seed nodes configuration

2013-06-24 Thread julien Campan
Hi , The seeds are only used when a node appears in the cluster. At this moment it chooses a seed (in the same dc) in order to have some information. So, the most secure way is to write all your other nodes as seed, but in fact you need only one up. if you think that you will never have 3 node do

quick question on seed nodes configuration

2013-06-24 Thread Hiller, Dean
For ease of use, we actually had a single cassandra.yaml deployed to every machine and a script that swapped out the token and listen address. I had seed nodes ip1,ip2,ip3 as the seeds but what I didn't realize was then that these nodes had themselves as seeds. I am assuming that should never