I've answered my own question here. The cloud VM that I'm using has multiple IP addresses. Specifying the desired dot decimal address fixed this problem.
On 2020/02/21 20:49:16, Lou DeGenaro <l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On host abbey-road I have 2 docker containers, one each for namenode and> > datanode. I can successfully use -ls from same VM:> > > [root@abbey-road ~]# /usr/local/apache-crail-1.2-incubating/bin/crail fs> > -ls /> > Found 1 items> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 crail crail 11 2020-02-21 14:39 /HelloWorld> > > I try the same from VM ringo-starr and get the subject Exception.> > > [root@ringo-starr ~]# cd $CRAIL_HOME> > [root@ringo-starr apache-crail-1.2-incubating]# grep abbey-road conf/*> > conf/core-site.xml: <value>crail://abbey-road:9060</value>> > conf/crail-site.conf:crail.namenode.address> > crail://abbey-road:9060> > [root@ringo-starr apache-crail-1.2-incubating]# ping abbey-road> > PING abbey-road.sl.cloud9.ibm.com (9.12.235.89) 56(84) bytes of data.> > 64 bytes from abbey-road.sl.cloud9.ibm.com (9.12.235.89): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64> > time=1.54 ms> > 64 bytes from abbey-road.sl.cloud9.ibm.com (9.12.235.89): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64> > time=0.566 ms> > ...> > [root@ringo-starr apache-crail-1.2-incubating]#> > /usr/local/apache-crail-1.2-incubating/bin/crail fs -ls> > ...> > 20/02/21 14:41:48 INFO crail: crail.namenode.address crail://abbey-road:9060> > ...> > ls: java.io.IOException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused> > > Please advise.> > > Lou.> >