The recommended way is to set your browser to use the local SOCKS proxy. See "Run a proxy" in http://whirr.apache.org/docs/0.7.0/quick-start-guide.html
We are also working on making that .pac file part of the distribution: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-35 -- Andrei On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Evan Pollan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a minor annoyance, but I'm wondering if anyone has found a way > around this. > > When whirr creates a hadoop cluster in EC2, I've found that the admin UI > (i.e. the web interface served up at <jobtracker>:50030, e.g.) uses the > public DNS names for all systems until you get down to the individual tasks > on a particular task tracker and want to download some or all of the logs > for a particular log. At this point, the URLs are rendered using the > private DNS names and are not resolvable outside EC2. > > Is there any way to get around this, other than pulling down the cluster > instance manifest and generating /etc/host entries all the private DNS > names pointing to each instance's public IPs? >
