Remove unnecessary DNS reverse lookups from RPC layer
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                 Key: HADOOP-7104
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7104
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: ipc, security
            Reporter: Kan Zhang
            Assignee: Kan Zhang


RPC connection authorization needs to verify client's Kerberos principal name 
matches what specified for the protocol. For service clients like DN's, their 
Kerberos principal names can be specified in the form of  
"datanode/_h...@domain.com". To get the expected
client principal name, the server needs to substitute "_HOST" with the client's 
fully qualified domain name, which requires a reverse DNS lookup from client IP 
address. However, for connections from clients whose principal name are either 
unspecified or specified not using the "_HOST" convention, the substitution is 
not required and the reverse DNS lookup should be avoided. Currently the 
reverse DNS lookup is done for all clients, which could slow services like NN 
down, when local named cache is not available.

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