Hi guys : Made more progress debugging my hadoop connection, but still haven't got it working...... It looks like my VM (cloudera hadoop) won't let me in. I find that there is no issue connecting to the name node - that is , using hftp and 50070......
via standard HFTP as in here : //This method works fine - connecting directly to hadoop's namenode and querying the filesystem public static void main1(String[] args) throws Exception { String uri = "hftp://155.37.101.76:50070/"; System.out.println( "uri: " + uri ); Configuration conf = new Configuration(); FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get( URI.create( uri ), conf ); fs.printStatistics(); } But unfortunately, I can't get into hdfs ..... Any thoughts on this ? I am modifying the uri to access port 8020 which is what is in my core-site.xml . // This fails, resulting (trys to connect over and over again, eventually gives up printing "already tried to connect 20 times"....) public static void main(String[] args) { try { String uri = "hdfs://155.37.101.76:8020/"; System.out.println( "uri: " + uri ); Configuration conf = new Configuration(); FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get( URI.create( uri ), conf ); fs.printStatistics(); } catch (Exception e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } The error message is : 11/10/28 19:03:38 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: / 155.37.101.76:8020. Already tried 0 time(s). 11/10/28 19:03:39 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: / 155.37.101.76:8020. Already tried 1 time(s). 11/10/28 19:03:40 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: / 155.37.101.76:8020. Already tried 2 time(s). 11/10/28 19:03:41 INFO ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: / 155.37.101.76:8020. Already tried 3 time(s). Any thoughts on this would be *really* be appreciated ... Thanks guys.