Hi, the Quick Start<http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/quickstart.html>has this sample configuration
<name>fs.default.name</name> <value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value> but it does not seem to work: even though the daemons do listen to 9000, the following command always uses 8020 hadoop fs -ls hdfs://localhost/ Also note that Tom White in his book never changes the hdfs port, so his examples do work :) I would call it an issue with hadoop, but if you never change the port, you are OK. Thank you, Mark