Hello again, In fact I can get the cluster up and running with two nodes in different LANs. The problem appears when executing a job.
As you can see in the piece of log bellow, the datanode tries to comunicate with the namenode using the IP 10.1.1.5. The issue is that the datanode should be using a valid IP, and not 10.1.1.5. Is there a way of manually configuring the datanode with the namenode's IP, so I can change from 10.1.1.5 to, say 189.11.131.172? Thanks, Lucas 2008-08-08 02:34:23,335 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: TaskTracker up at: localhost/127.0.0.1:60394 2008-08-08 02:34:23,335 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Starting tracker tracker_localhost:localhost/127.0.0.1:60394 2008-08-08 02:34:23,589 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Starting thread: Map-events fetcher for all reduce tasks on tracker_localhost:localhost/127.0.0.1:60394 2008-08-08 03:06:43,239 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: LaunchTaskAction: task_200808080234_0001_m_000000_0 2008-08-08 03:07:43,989 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 1 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:08:44,999 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 2 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:09:45,999 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 3 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:10:47,009 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 4 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:11:48,009 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 5 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:12:49,026 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 6 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:13:50,036 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 7 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:14:51,046 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 8 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:15:52,056 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 9 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:16:53,066 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: /10.1.1.5:9000. Already tried 10 time(s). 2008-08-08 03:17:54,077 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Error initializing task_200808080234_0001_m_000000_0: java.net.SocketTimeoutException at sun.nio.ch.SocketAdaptor.connect(SocketAdaptor.java:109) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.setupIOstreams(Client.java:174) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.getConnection(Client.java:623) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:546) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:212) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.$Proxy5.getProtocolVersion(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC.getProxy(RPC.java:313) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient.createRPCNamenode(DFSClient.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient.<init>(DFSClient.java:178) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedFileSystem.initialize(DistributedFileSystem.java:68) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:1280) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$300(FileSystem.java:56) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:1291) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:203) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.getNamed(FileSystem.java:152) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.localizeJob(TaskTracker.java:670) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.startNewTask(TaskTracker.java:1274) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.offerService(TaskTracker.java:915) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.run(TaskTracker.java:1310) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.main(TaskTracker.java:2251) On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Lucas Nazário dos Santos < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone point me out what are the extra tasks that need to be performed > in order to set up a cluster where nodes are spread over the Internet, in > different LANs? > > Do I need to free any datanode/namenode ports? How do I get the datanodes > to know the valid namenode IP, and not something like 10.1.1.1? > > Any help is appreciate. > > Lucas >