HBase does bind to 0.0.0.0:60020. It uses the hostname to report this to META and that is how other people find the region servers.
Are you not seeing this? On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:15 PM, dmitri garbuzov <dgarbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up hbase on a cluster where each machine has multiple > interfaces. Hdfs worked right away since I could just set the name node to > listen on 0.0.0.0, but hbase region servers seem to pick one of the > interfaces at random, ignoring the hbase.regionserver.dns.interface option. > Is the dns.interface setting supposed to make hbase bind to a specific > interface? Is there anything special I need to do to get this to work? > > dmitri >