See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17581 for details.
TL;DR Parsing of URL Strings in Built-in JNDI Providers Is More Strict
Quick fix/workaround:
$ export JVM_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.jndi.rmiURLParsing=legacy"
See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17581 for details.
TL;DR Parsing of URL Strings in Built-in JNDI Providers Is More Strict
Quick fix/workaround:
$ export JVM_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.jndi.rmiURLParsing=legacy"
The proper fix is an upgrade to Cassandra 3.11.13, which includes a work-around for this issue (see: T309896: Upgrade Cassandra to latest 3.x (3.11.13)).