" The specified handover means that if the node that is supposed to receive the record is not working, Cassandra will send this record to another node with a" hint "saying that when the destination node becomes available again, the record must be sent there."
After answering the second question, I believe that the third question is becoming obsolete (?)
And finally, the first question: the token, the name of the cluster and whether the node is loading or not, will be saved in the system. (thanks driftx)
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