It turned out to be an /etc/hosts issue. I needed to remove the hbase host name from 127.0.0.1 and add a separate line with the machines ip and host name. Then I had to duplicate that on the Nutch machine.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Bai Shen <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for the cross posting, but I'm not sure where the configuration > I'm missing lies. > > I have Nutch 2.1 connecting to HBase 0.90.6 with everything running > locally on the same machine. Now I'm trying to move them to separate > machines. > > I added hbase.zookeeper.quorum in the Nutch hbase-site.xml to point to > the HBase server. The HBase logs show the client connection from Nutch, > but then I get a hbase MasterNotRunningException: localhost:50712 > > As far as I can tell, Zookeeper is defaulting to returning localhost for > the HBase server. Where is the setting to change this? > > Thanks. >

