There is no need to map this node's inet_address to host_id. The storage_service can easily just pass the local host_id. While at it, get the other node's host_id directly from their endpoint_state instead of looking it up yet again in the gossiper, using the nodes' address. Refs #12283 Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>