When killed a HotRod server node, HotRod Clinet sometimes recieves a stale toplogy view which includes the dead node and uses it as a latest view. In this case the client keeps trying to connect that node and keeps failing.

Looks like the AbstractEncoder1x.generateTopologyResponse() takes care of node join but doesn't handle node leave:

if (!serverEndpointsMap.keySet.containsAll(cacheMembers)) {

For example, serverEndpointsMap.keySet is [A, B, C] and the actual cacheMembers is [A, B].