I got hbase working. The trick was to properly configure the fs.defaultFS and hbase.rootdir. Other than that hbase does not seem to care about hostname vs ip address.
Note that I use python to fill my templates, hence the %(hadoop.dfs.master)s syntax. Here hadoop.dfs.master is an ip address and hbase registers with hdfs without a glitch. So far the only glitch I have is the the hdfs webui where the master insists on calling itself a hostname, which in turn gives me a java stacktrace when it goes to the slave nodes webui (when browsing the filesystem). It looks like in the worst case I will have to put the master ip in /etc/hosts but it would be a lot less trouble than maintaining an entry for every single node. Still it would be great to have an option to force that name to be the ip address. -- View this message in context: http://hadoop.6.n7.nabble.com/IP-based-hadoop-cluster-tp70191p70244.html Sent from the common-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
