Check your etc/hosts file. I usually resolve this issue by fixing some weirdness or misconfiguration in that file.
Regards Steve Watt From: Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Date: 10/11/2010 04:36 AM Subject: Re: Unknown Host Exception On 10/10/10 16:07, siddharth raghuvanshi wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply.. > > In browser, > > http://localhost:50030/jobtracker.jsp is opening fine > but > http://localhost:50060/ is not. > > Since jobtracker is running, so I'm assuming localhost is reachable.. am I > wrong?? I'd worry more about the machine name in the error cs-sy-249.cse.iitkgp.ernet.in I don't know where Hadoop is getting this name from, but it's the one it can't see.