got it the culprit was apaches website frm whr i copied the secnamenodeaddrs
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.23.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/Federation.html#Configuration here secondary.http-address.ns1 shud be used instead of secondaryhttp-address.ns1 <property> <name>dfs.namenode.secondaryhttp-address.ns1</name> <value>snn-host1:http-port</value> </property> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Visioner Sadak <visioner.sa...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have configured a cluster setup of hadoop,shud i create a directory for > secondary namenode as well if i need one hw to mention tht in core-site.xml > ,is tmp directory needed in coresite.xml or can i remove tht... > > secondly what is rpc-address and http-address currently i am running > hadoop with rpc-address only is http-address mandatory....... > > below are my cluster configs > > core-site.xml > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> > <configuration> > <property> > <name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name> > <value>/home/hadoop/tmp</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>fs.default.name</name> > <value>viewfs:///</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>fs.viewfs.mounttable.default.link./NN1Home</name> > <value>hdfs://132.148.0.10:9001/ns1home</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>fs.viewfs.mounttable.default.link./NN2Home</name> > <value>hdfs://132.148.0.11:9001/ns2home</value> > </property> > </configuration> > > and > > hdfs-site.xml > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> > <configuration> > <property> > <name>dfs.permissions</name> > <value>false</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>dfs.replication</name> > <value>2</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>dfs.namenode.name.dir</name> > <value>/home/hadoop/nn</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>dfs.datanode.data.dir</name> > <value>/home/hadoop/dn</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>dfs.webhdfs.enabled</name> > <value>true</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>dfs.federation.nameservices</name> > <value>ns1,ns2</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>dfs.namenode.rpc-address.ns1</name> > <value>132.148.0.10:9001</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>dfs.namenode.rpc-address.ns2</name> > <value>132.148.0.11:9001</value> > </property> > > </configuration> > > >