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Benoy Antony commented on HADOOP-10941:
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That was my assumption too. But shouldn't we make this change anyway ?
I believe , we should handle nulls properly in this code unit.
> Proxy user verification NPEs if remote host is unresolvable
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> Key: HADOOP-10941
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10941
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: ipc, security
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.5.0
> Reporter: Daryn Sharp
> Assignee: Benoy Antony
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: HADOOP-10941.patch
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> A null is passed to the impersonation providers for the remote address if it
> is unresolvable. {{DefaultImpersationProvider}} will NPE, ipc will close the
> connection immediately (correct behavior for such unexpected exceptions),
> client fails on {{EOFException}}.
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