Thank you Barney Frank, your detailed notes were very helpful in confirming I was doing things correctly already on the client. I did a lot of tracing through the HBase code and concluded that the problem lay with my server.
It looks like 0.20.0 has all sorts of DNS config entries and by default in my setup, the address of my one server - running peudo distributed hbase and hadoop for development purposes - resolves to 127.0.1.1 all the time. My client gets back all sorts of addressing details from the server (from zookeeper presumably) telling my client things are running on 127.0.1.1, which of course they are not. I think my question now boils down to how can I configure Zookeeper so it will return the address of the virtual machine it is running on automatically, regardless of whether my laptop is connected to a network or running disconnected on on a plane. To a newbie like myself he pre-0.20.0 type functionality (e..g. 'hbase.master') seems to be more likely to meet my needs than a DNS based solution, but what do I know :-) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HBase-client-query-tp25752430p25813504.html Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
