new cassandra node can't gossip with seed

Question

I am trying to spin up a new node using cassandra 2.0.7. Both nodes are at Digital Ocean. The seed node is up and running and I can telnet to port 7000 on that host from the

Answer 1

Check the Fire wall : Port setting in the new node

http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/security/secureFireWall_r.html