Hi all,
I have set up a Cassandra cluster with 2.1.4 on some existing AWS boxes,
just as a POC. Cassandra servers connect to each other over their internal
AWS IP addresses (172.x.x.x) aliased in /etc/hosts as sales1, sales2 and
sales3.
I connect to it from my local dev environment using the seed’s external NAT
address (54.x.x.x) aliases in my Windows hosts file as sales3 (my seed).
When I try to connect, it connects fine, and can retrieve some data (I have
very limited amounts of data in there, but it seems to retrieve ok), but I
also get lots of stacktraces in my log where my dev environment is trying
to connect to Cassandra on the internal IP (presumably the Cassandra seed
node tells my dev env where to look):
*INFO 2015-04-20 16:34:14,808 [CASSANDRA-CLIENT] {main} Cluster - New
Cassandra host sales3/54.x.x.142:9042 added*
*INFO 2015-04-20 16:34:14,808 [CASSANDRA-CLIENT] {main} Cluster - New
Cassandra host /172.x.x.237:9042 added*
*INFO 2015-04-20 16:34:14,808 [CASSANDRA-CLIENT] {main} Cluster - New
Cassandra host /172.x.x.170:9042 added*
*Connected to cluster: Test Cluster*
*Datatacenter: datacenter1; Host: /172.x.x.170; Rack: rack1*
*Datatacenter: datacenter1; Host: sales3/54.x.x.142; Rack: rack1*
*Datatacenter: datacenter1; Host: /172.x.x.237; Rack: rack1*
*DEBUG 2015-04-20 16:34:14,901 [CASSANDRA-CLIENT] {Cassandra Java Driver
worker-0} Connection - Connection[sales3/54.x.x.142:9042-2, inFlight=0,
closed=false] Transport initialized and ready*
*DEBUG 2015-04-20 16:34:14,901 [CASSANDRA-CLIENT] {Cassandra Java Driver
worker-0} Session - Added connection pool for sales3/54.x.x.142:9042*
*DEBUG 2015-04-20 16:34:19,850 [CASSANDRA-CLIENT] {Cassandra Java Driver
worker-1} Connection - Connection[/172.x.x.237:9042-1, inFlight=0,
closed=false] Error connecting to /172.x.x.237:9042 (connection timed out:
/172.x.x.237:9042)*
*DEBUG 2015-04-20 16:34:19,850 [CASSANDRA-CLIENT] {Cassandra Java Driver
worker-1} Connection - Defuncting connection to /172.x.x.237:9042*
*com.datastax.driver.core.TransportException**: [/172.x.x.237:9042] Cannot
connect*
Does anyone have any experience with connecting to AWS clusters from dev
machines? How have you set up your aliases to get around this issue?
Current setup in sales3 (seed node) cassandra.yaml:
*- seeds: "sales3"*
*listen_address: sales3*
*rpc_address: sales3*
Current setup in other nodes (eg sales2) cassandra.yaml:
*- seeds: "sales3"*
*listen_address: sales2*
*rpc_address: sales2*
Thanks!
Matt
