Some old bits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28162991/cant-run-spark-1-2-in-standalone-mode-on-mac http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29412157/passing-hostname-to-netty
FYI On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Nicholas Chammas < nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m setting the Spark master address via the SPARK_MASTER_IP environment > variable in spark-env.sh, like spark-ec2 does > <https://github.com/amplab/spark-ec2/blob/a990752575cd8b0ab25731d7820a55c714798ec3/templates/root/spark/conf/spark-env.sh#L13> > . > > The funny thing is that Spark seems to accept this only if the value of > SPARK_MASTER_IP is a DNS name and not an IP address. > > When I provide an IP address, I get errors in the log when starting the > master: > > 15/10/15 01:47:31 ERROR NettyTransport: failed to bind to /54.210.XX.XX:7077, > shutting down Netty transport > > (XX is my redaction of the full IP address.) > > Am I misunderstanding something about how to use this environment variable? > > The spark-env.sh template indicates that either an IP address or a > hostname should work > <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/4ace4f8a9c91beb21a0077e12b75637a4560a542/conf/spark-env.sh.template#L49>, > but my testing shows that only hostnames work. > > Nick > >