I think you can also use ifconfig command in the VM to see the ip address. And then you can change your ip address in /etc/hosts.
Regards! Yong On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Ben Lisbakken <lisba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello -- > > I've got a problem where the RegionServers try to connect to localhost for > the Master, because that's what's being reported to them by the ZooKeeper. > Since they are not on the same machine, the requests fail: > 2012-05-01 18:01:27,111 INFO > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Attempting connect to > Master server at localhost,60000 > 2012-05-01 18:02:27,276 WARN > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Unable to connect to > master. Retrying. Error was: > java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused > > I've looked through the documentation, it seems there is no way to > statically set the master's address. I've read through this archive a bit > and found this thread: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201112.mbox/%3c28a2f04e.aa30.13440f376a4.coremail.exception...@163.com%3E > > The suggestions are basically to modify /etc/hosts. > > In my situation, I don't think I can use this approach. I am doing an > automated deployment on freshly deployed VMs and having a script modify > /etc/hosts doesn't fit in well with this. > > There has to be a better way to force the master to report the correct > address. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks, > Ben
