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
I faced the same problem and solved it by JRun's method explained above. But originally it didn't because I have set the seed node as 127.0.0.1. later I changed it to my interface ip address and solve the problem. I had to set same IPs which used as listen address and rpc address.