Cannot connect to one pod cassandra cluster in OpenShift Container Platform

Issue

• When trying to connect to cassandra cluster using oc rsh hawkular-cassandra-NAME and execute any query like cqlsh --ssl -e "SELECT table_name FROM system_schema.tables WHERE keyspace_name = 'hawkular_metrics'" we see the below error, even though cassandra pod is up and ready. Also, there is only one pod in the cassandra cluster.
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Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'10.0.0.1': error(111, "Tried connecting to [('10.0.0.1', 9042)]. Last error: Connection refused")})