if you are using the Right API's..... read requests will not be sent to the bootstrapping nodes where as writes will be sent. Regards, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Bill Hastings wrote: > there will be reads that will fail in the interim. Am I way off here? > Apologies if I am wrong and I will continue looking. I am very curious is > knowing how this works. >