If you truly want to understand the weirdness behind what you witnessed, then make a big cup of coffee, prepare a notebook with a pen and sit down to read this: http://blog.devving.com/why-does-hbase-care-about-etchosts/ My friend at devving.com had a fight like this with HBase pseudo mode, but decided to go really deep into HBase code , JVM, Dns resolving and Linux standards.
On Friday, May 24, 2013, Jay Vyas wrote: > +1 for a VM on your own machine. That's how I do it because its easy to > control and muck with network settings . > > Cant you just Edit etc/hostname file ? > > On May 24, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > This is a machine identity problem. HBase simply uses the normal Java > > APIs and asks "who am I?". The answer it gets is > > ip72-215-225-9.at.at.cox.net. Changing this should only be a matter of > > DNS configs, starting with /etc/hosts. What is your machine's hostname > > exactly (run "hostname")? When you ping it, what does it return? That > > should get you started. Does you machine even have a local IP when you > > run ifconfig? If not, all you can do is force everything to localhost > > in your network configs. It also means you cannot use HBase in a > > distributed fashion. > > > > Changing the code seems like a waste of time, HBase is inherently > > distributed and it relies on machines having their network correctly > > configured. Your time might be better spent using a VM on your own > > machine. > > > > J-D > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Yves S. Garret > > <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That seems to be the case. The thing that I don't get is if I missed > any > >> "global" setting in order to make everything turn towards localhost. > What > >> am I missing? > >> > >> I'll scour the HBase docs again. > >> > >> > >> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Jay Vyas <jayunit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Yes ... get hostname and /etc/hosts synced up properly and i bet that > will > >>> fix it > >>> > >>> > >>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans < > jdcry...@apache.org > >>>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Ah yeah the master advertised itself as: > >>>> > >>>> Attempting connect to Master server at > >>>> ip72-215-225-9.at.at.cox.net,46122,1369408257140 > >>>> > >>>> So the region server cannot find it since that's the public address > >>>> and nothing's reachable through that. Now you really need to fix your > >>>> networking :) > >>>> > >>>> J-D > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Yves S. Garret > >>>> <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> Ok, weird, it still seems to be looking towards Cox. > >>>>> > >>>>> Here is my hbase-site.xml file: > >>>>> http://bin.cakephp.org/view/628322266 > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans < > >>> jdcry...@apache.org > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> No, I meant hbase.master.ipc.address and > >>>>>> hbase.regionserver.ipc.address. See > >>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8148. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> J-D > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Yves S. Garret > >>>>>> <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> Do you mean hbase.master.info.bindAddress and > >>>>>>> hbase.regionserver.info.bindAddress? I couldn't find > >>>>>>> anything else in the docs. But having said that, both > >>>>>>> are set to 0.0.0.0 by default. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Also, I checked out 127.0.0.1:60010 and 0.0.0.0:60010, > >>>>>>> no web gui. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>
