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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-8113: --------------------------------------------- bq. What if your local clock is borked? Then you have bigger problems ;) bq. Perhaps, a remote node's last version + an approximation of the number of updates in a year (86400 * 365) = 31,536,000. Sounds reasonable to me. > Gossip should ignore generation numbers too far in the future > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-8113 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8113 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Core > Reporter: Richard Low > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)