If you are not using Kerberos authentication, then you need to figure
out how your DNS names are resolving for your VM. A
SocketTimeoutException means that your client could not open an socket
to that host:port which was specified. Likely, this is something you
need to figure out with your VM.
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I've taken the liberty of moving this over to the user list.
Typically, such an exception is related to Kerberos authentication, when
the HBase service denies in an incoming, non-authenticated client.
However, since you're running