[CASSANDRA-13851] Allow existing nodes to use all peers in shadow round

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.3, 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Component/s: Local/Startup and Shutdown
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Kurt Greaves
• Reporter: Kurt Greaves

Authors

Kurt Greaves

Reviewers

Sam Tunnicliffe

• Created: 07/Sep/17 12:36
• Updated: 29/Jul/22 17:45
• Resolved: 17/Apr/18 17:16

Description

In CASSANDRA-10134 we made collision checks necessary on every startup. A side-effect was introduced that then requires a nodes seeds to be contacted on every startup. Prior to this change an existing node could start up regardless whether it could contact a seed node or not (because checkForEndpointCollision() was only called for bootstrapping nodes).

Now if a nodes seeds are removed/deleted/fail it will no longer be able to start up until live seeds are configured (or itself is made a seed), even though it already knows about the rest of the ring. This is inconvenient for operators and has the potential to cause some nasty surprises and increase downtime.

One solution would be to use all a nodes existing peers as seeds in the shadow round. Not a Gossip guru though so not sure of implications.