title: Cannot connect to Cassandra on localhost
body: <p>First time using cassandra, I have attempted to configue the yaml file according to other related posts but had no luck so far. Any idea how do so on the localhost?</p>
  
  <pre><code>The specified host(s) could not be reached.
  All host(s) tried for query failed (tried: localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9042 (com.datastax.driver.core.TransportException: [localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9042] Cannot connect), localhost/127.0.0.1:9042 (com.datastax.driver.core.TransportException: [localhost/127.0.0.1:9042] Cannot connect))
    [localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9042] Cannot connect
    [localhost/127.0.0.1:9042] Cannot connect
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