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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-4331:
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bq. I'd prefer not deprecating the 0 option. Accumulo on Slider uses that.
Yeah, It doesn't make sense to me to deprecate using random ports, it's just
not something that Accumulo out of the box would recommend (because of what we
know about production environments of security-conscious people). I think that
adequate documentation about when '0' makes sense to use would be better than
removing entirely.
bq. Instead, I think we should allow the user to specify a single value or a
range (M-N).
I think this would be a nice thing to add.
> Make port configuration and allocation consistent across services
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>
> Key: ACCUMULO-4331
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4331
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.8.0
> Reporter: Dave Marion
> Fix For: 1.8.0
>
>
> There was some discussion in ACCUMULO-4328 about ports, so I decided to track
> down how the client ports are configured and allocated. Issues raised in the
> discussion were:
> 1. The port search feature was not well understood
> 2. Ephemeral port allocation makes it hard to lock servers down (e.g.
> iptables)
> Looking through the code I found the following properties allocate a port
> number based on conf.getPort(). This returns the port number based on the
> property and supports either a single value or zero. Then, in the server
> component (monitor, tracer, gc, etc) this value is used when creating a
> ServerSocket. If the port is already in use, the process will fail.
> {noformat}
> monitor.port.log4j
> trace.port.client
> gc.port.client
> monitor.port.client
> {noformat}
> The following properties use TServerUtils.startServer which uses the value in
> the property to start the TServer. If the value is zero, then it picks a
> random port between 1024 and 65535. If tserver.port.search is enabled, then
> it will try a thousand times to bind to a random port.
> {noformat}
> tserver.port.client
> master.port.client
> master.replication.coordinator.port
> replication.receipt.service.port
> {noformat}
> I'm proposing that we deprecate the tserver.port.search property and the
> value zero in the property value for the properties above. Instead, I think
> we should allow the user to specify a single value or a range (M-N).
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