Cassandra cqlsh - connection refused

Question

I've just started working with Cassandra (datastax), version 2.1.3 and cqlsh version 5.0.1.

Cassandra starts up fine and the cluster is operational instantly.

Cqlsh is not working (on any of the nodes) and emits the following error:

Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'127.0.0.1': error(111, "Tried connecting to [('127.0.0.1', 9042)]. Last error: Connection refused")})

I have tried starting cqlsh up with the hosts own ip, other hosts ip, different ports yet the result remains the same - always connection refused.

Answer 1

You need to edit cassandra.yaml on the node you are trying to connect to and set the node ip address for rpc_address and listen_address and restart Cassandra.

rpc_address is the address on which Cassandra listens to the client calls.

listen_address is the address on which Cassandra listens to the other Cassandra nodes.