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Benedict updated CASSANDRA-14779:
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    Description: 
The snitch can be set via StorageService over JMX, for what reason I’m unsure. 
If this were to happen, we might encounter the following problems:
 * If the effective local DC were to change, we would not update it. Perhaps 
changing the local DC of a node should be rejected and cause it to fail, but 
presently, it would simply result in our disagreeing with the snitch.
 * During the transition, routing of queries might be broken, as we fetch the 
snitch multiple times in different locations when deciding where to route our 
query and writes. It’s not clear what the outcome of a discordant view of the 
ring would be.

Probably, changing this information in a live cluster is dangerous and we 
should actually reject any effective changes to rack, or DC for any node. But 
presently we don’t seem to corroborate that this information remains the same. 
We don’t seem to perform any cluster wide confirmation that this data is 
consistent, generally, which perhaps we should also consider.

  was:
The snitch can be set via StorageProxy over JMX, for what reason I’m unsure.  
If this were to happen, we might encounter the following problems:
* If the effective local DC were to change, we would not update it.  Perhaps 
changing the local DC of a node should be rejected and cause it to fail, but 
presently, it would simply result in our disagreeing with the snitch.
* During the transition, routing of queries might be broken, as we fetch the 
snitch multiple times in different locations when deciding where to route our 
query and writes.  It’s not clear what the outcome of a discordant view of the 
ring would be.

Probably, changing this information in a live cluster is dangerous and we 
should actually reject any effective changes to rack, or DC for any node.  But 
presently we don’t seem to corroborate that this information remains the same.  
We don’t seem to perform any cluster wide confirmation that this data is 
consistent, generally, which perhaps we should also consider.



> Changing EndpointSnitch via JMX has problems
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-14779
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14779
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Distributed Metadata
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.x
>
>
> The snitch can be set via StorageService over JMX, for what reason I’m 
> unsure. If this were to happen, we might encounter the following problems:
>  * If the effective local DC were to change, we would not update it. Perhaps 
> changing the local DC of a node should be rejected and cause it to fail, but 
> presently, it would simply result in our disagreeing with the snitch.
>  * During the transition, routing of queries might be broken, as we fetch the 
> snitch multiple times in different locations when deciding where to route our 
> query and writes. It’s not clear what the outcome of a discordant view of the 
> ring would be.
> Probably, changing this information in a live cluster is dangerous and we 
> should actually reject any effective changes to rack, or DC for any node. But 
> presently we don’t seem to corroborate that this information remains the 
> same. We don’t seem to perform any cluster wide confirmation that this data 
> is consistent, generally, which perhaps we should also consider.



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