[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-12217) Assassinate should use the current timestamp for the generation instead of incrementing

["Brandon Williams (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Brandon Williams created CASSANDRA-12217:
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             Summary: Assassinate should use the current timestamp for the generation instead of incrementing
                 Key: CASSANDRA-12217
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12217
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Brandon Williams
            Assignee: Brandon Williams
             Fix For: 2.1.16


In CASSANDRA-8113 we made gossip ignore generations more than a year in the future.  While that is good, what can happen is this: you errantly have a machine start with a clock at, say, epoch+1, making the generation 1.  Now, you're kind of stuck, because all other nodes will ignore you until you get up to now - 1 year, which from 1970 will take a lot of assassinates since it only increments the generation.  Instead, I propose we use the assassinating node's timestamp as the generation, so that we have a way out of this aside from discarding the IP address for 3 days.



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