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Jason Brown commented on CASSANDRA-8113:
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What if your local clock is borked? Perhaps, a remote node's last version + an
approximation of the number of updates in a year (86400 * 365) = 31,536,000.
wdyt?
> Gossip should ignore generation numbers too far in the future
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> Key: CASSANDRA-8113
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8113
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Richard Low
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> If a node sends corrupted gossip, it could set the generation numbers for
> other nodes to arbitrarily large values. This is dangerous since one bad node
> (e.g. with bad memory) could in theory bring down the cluster. Nodes should
> refuse to accept generation numbers that are too far in the future.
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