Patrick, Basically, yes. Sorry for the lengthy answer ;)
J-D On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Patrick Hunt<ph...@apache.org> wrote: > I see, so an inconsistency then wrt name lookup. > > Thanks! > > Patrick > > Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote: >> >> Well the situation is that HBase now generates the myid files and to >> find the id we look in the hbase.zookeeper.quorum configuration that >> itself generates a temporary zoo.cfg file. To do that we have to >> somehow match the machine's own knowledge of its address with what's >> in that list. To find our address we use org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS >> with the method getDefaultHost and then we go through the list of >> machines defined in the HBase configuration. What comes out of DNS >> relies on how the OS is configured or it asks a specified dns server >> (if provided). >> >> So, in David's situation, he specified an IP address and DNS returns a >> hostname so we don't get a match. The resolution in that case is to >> fix the configuration by passing hostnames, to change the OS >> configuration, to setup a DNS server or to configure/start zookeeper >> by hand. From what I've seen, that stuff is never easier but eh, we >> still get you a quorum running in the end :P >> >> J-D >> >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Patrick Hunt<ph...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jean-Daniel, not sure I get your response fully. Are you saying that >>> the >>> configured ip addr was resolved to a hostname, but that hostname didn't >>> match the list of ip addresses used when defining the zk quorum machines? >>> Is >>> there a workaround you could suggest for ppl who don't have DNS >>> available? >>> Should an Hbase JIRA be created for this -- ie is it something you >>> consider >>> should be fixed/improved? >>> >>> Patrick >>> >>> Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote: >>>> >>>> Oh ok well HBase relies on the DNS class shipped with Hadoop to >>>> determine your address. It will try to use a hostname if possible but >>>> what comes out of there really depends on your OS configuration. In >>>> your case, that means that it resolved a hostname instead of an IP >>>> (which is rare) so you should use it instead. >>>> >>>> Also this is HBase-specific, ZK isn't really involved. >>>> >>>> J-D >>>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Pythonner<python...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I forgot to post that line: >>>>> <property> >>>>> <name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name> >>>>> <value>192.168.1.xx</value> >>>>> </property> >>>>> >>>>> ok, I'll check the guide shipped with HBase. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans >>>>> <jdcry...@apache.org>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> David, >>>>>> >>>>>> hbase.master is deprecated in HBase 0.20, instead you have to specify >>>>>> hbase.zookeeper.quorum if you want to use HBase in a distributed mode >>>>>> with a ZK quorum. Please see the Getting Started documentation shipped >>>>>> with HBase. >>>>>> >>>>>> J-D >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Pythonner<python...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>> this is a follow-up of discussion started on twitter with >>>>>>> http://twitter.com/phunt. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I installed HBase 0.20.0 RC2 on Ubuntu server boxes. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If I'm using machines IP in config files (see below), I get the >>>>>>> following >>>>>>> error message: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 'Could not find my address: xyz in list of ZooKeeper quorum servers' >>>>>> >>>>>> message >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (where 'yxz' is a hostname) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> my config is: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hbase-env.sh: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> export HBASE_MANAGES_ZK=true >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hbase-site.xml: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <configuration> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <property> >>>>>>> <name>hbase.rootdir</name> >>>>>>> <value>hdfs://192.168.1.xx:9200/hbase</value> >>>>>>> </property> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <property> >>>>>>> <name>hbase.master</name> >>>>>>> <value>192.168.1.xx:60000</value> >>>>>>> </property> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <property> >>>>>>> <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name> >>>>>>> <value>true</value> >>>>>>> </property> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> </configuration> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> from vanilla Ubuntu server install, I removed the 127.0.1.1 line from >>>>>>> /etc/hosts >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is it supposed to work well with IP addresses only? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> David >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Balie - Baseline Information Extraction >>>>> http://balie.sourceforge.net >>>>> [Open Source ~ 100% Java ~ Using Weka ~ Multilingual] >>>>> >
