Hector NodeAutoDiscoverService fails to resolve hosts due to / being part of the IP address

Didn't get this problem with Cassandra 0.8.2- started happening under 0.8.4. Temporary work around was to disable node auto discovery. Seems to be related to:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=1155157
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1777

LOG:

240514 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.NodeAutoDiscoverService - using existing hosts [10.255.255.176(10.255.255.176):9160, 10.255.255.175(10.255.255.175):9160]
240553 [pool-2-thread-1] ERROR me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.CassandraHost - Unable to resolve host /10.255.255.176
240553 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.NodeAutoDiscoverService - Found a node we don't know about /10.255.255.176(/10.255.255.176):9160 for TokenRange TokenRange(start_token:33370589793653380361461751202224080323, end_token:93518639523624865529944734322199113946, endpoints:[/10.255.255.176])
240553 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.NodeAutoDiscoverService - Found 1 new host(s) in Ring
240553 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.NodeAutoDiscoverService - Addding found host /10.255.255.176(/10.255.255.176):9160 to pool
240554 [pool-2-thread-1] ERROR me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HConnectionManager - General exception host to HConnectionManager: /10.255.255.176(/10.255.255.176):9160
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: protocol = socket host = null
at sun.net.spi.DefaultProxySelector.select(DefaultProxySelector.java:151)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:358)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:178)
at org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.open(TFramedTransport.java:81)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HThriftClient.open(HThriftClient.java:123)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.ConcurrentHClientPool.<init>(ConcurrentHClientPool.java:43)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.RoundRobinBalancingPolicy.createConnection(RoundRobinBalancingPolicy.java:68)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HConnectionManager.addCassandraHost(HConnectionManager.java:103)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.NodeAutoDiscoverService.doAddNodes(NodeAutoDiscoverService.java:68)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.NodeAutoDiscoverService$QueryRing.run(NodeAutoDiscoverService.java:53)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:204)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)