Hi Harsh, Thanks a lot for your reply, it's enlightening.
For #2, I double checked and found the patches(HADOOP-8154 and HADOOP-7806) are also in branch-1, only that it exists in hadoop release later than(including) 1.1.0, but we're using hadoop-1.0.4 here. On 7 December 2012 21:12, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 1. Too bad that you can't change the hostname to be an actual meaningful > one. I would not consider a node in the network a proper one if it does not > define a usable default hostname. > 2. Virtual NIF name support (iface:sub-iface format) is available in Hadoop > 2.x based releases. Perhaps that may help a bit. > 3. Reverse DNS is essential I would say, as there are a few places I think > that stores IPs instead of hostnames, and may need to do a lookup at some > point. Not 100% sure if the lack of this will work across the stack. > > Looks to me like your networked condition is setup in a pretty non-standard > way. Please do contact your network administrators to set things right. A > sane network setup is necessary for a pain-free experience in a distributed > system. > > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Yu Li <car...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > We have met with some problem setting up hbase cluster in one special > > environment, as described below: > > > > 1) The output of "hostname -i" on hbase master node is 127.0.0.1, and we > > don't have sudo rights to change hostname of the machine > > 2) The network interface we want hbase to use is virtual, with name like > > "eth1:0", which cannot be recognized by the NetworkInterface#getByName > > method, thus setting the "hbase.regionserver.dns.interface" to "eth1:0" > > doesn't work > > 3) There's no reverse DNS setup in the environment > > > > I noticed on the Reference Guide that "Both forward and reverse DNS > > resolving must work in versions of HBase previous to 0.92.0", so I guess > > there must have been some work-around in the env w/o reverse DNS, > correct? > > Are there any suggestions on how to setup the hbase cluster in this > > environment? Thanks in advance, and look forward to your reply. > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > Li Yu > > > > > > -- > Harsh J > -- Best Regards, Li Yu