Oh no sorry I misled you, this is another problem. You cannot use the external addresses because they change so HBase _has_ to use the internal addresses or you could have very weird problems.
So there is another question: why do you want to connect to an EC2 cluster remotely? Any client connection will suffer from high latency. J-D On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Ananth T. Sarathy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm thanks, > Where exactly am I supposed to find the nameserver? It's not the external > dns for the box right? > > Ananth T Sarathy > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You have to set hbase.regionserver.dns.interface and >> hbase.regionserver.dns.nameserver with valid values. The interface >> will probably be something like "eth0" and the nameserver is the one >> provided by EC2. >> >> J-D >> >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ananth T. Sarathy >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > When we try to connect to hbase running on an ec2 server from a machine >> > outside ec2, the regionserver on port 60020 is trying to connect to the >> > internal ip address rather than the external dns >> > >> > i feel it's the same issue as this >> > >> > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1279 >> > >> > >> > but my client keeps getting >> > >> > >> > 09/09/14 13:31:16 INFO ipc.HBaseClass: Retrying connect to server: / >> > 10.244.150.243:60020. Already tried 26 time(s). >> > 09/09/14 13:31:37 INFO ipc.HBaseClass: Retrying connect to server: / >> > 10.244.150.243:60020. Already tried 27 time(s). >> > >> > >> > >> > hbase-site.xml >> > >> > >> > <name>hbase.master</name> >> > <value>ec2externaldns:60000</value> >> > <description>The host and port that the HBase master runs at. >> > A value of 'local' runs the master and a regionserver in >> > a single process. >> > </description> >> > </property> >> > >> > >> > <property> >> > <name>hbase.regionserver</name> >> > <value>ec2externaldns:60020</value> >> > <description>The host and port a HBase region server runs at. >> > </description> >> > </property> >> > >> > <property> >> > <name>hbase.regionserver.dns.interface</name> >> > <value>0.0.0.0</value> >> > <description>Name of the network interface which a regionserver >> > should use to determine it's "real" IP address. This lookup >> > prevents strings like "localhost" and "127.0.0.1" from being >> > reported back to the master. >> > </description> >> > </property> >> > >> > Ananth T Sarathy >> > >> >
