Loki Ingester 0/1 fails to Connect to Outdated IPs in Gossip Ring in RHOCP 4

Issue

• Lokistack operator fails to start logging-loki-ingester pod due to connection timeout to an outdated IP in the gossip ring.
• IP addresses in the gossip ring endpoint list that are no longer in use causing the issue.
• The logs indicate an error connecting to the outdated IP address: WriteTo failed" addr=<IP>:7946 err="dial tcp <IP>:7946: i/o timeout".
• The IP addresses are not present in the podnetwork or in the list of addresses for the logging-loki-gossip-ring endpoint.
• Loki Ingester in 0/1, even, when not having an issue with the Loki storage as described in the Red Hat Knowledge Article "Loki ingesters 0/1 in RHOCP 4"

• Loki Ingester pod throws the error:

  msg="found an existing instance(s) with a problem in the ring, this instance cannot become ready until this problem is resolved. The /ring http endpoint on the distributor (or single binary) provides visibility into the ring." ring=ingester err="instance 10.x.x.x:9095 past heartbeat timeout"