Hey, Spark Submit adds maven central & spark bintray to the ChainResolver before it adds any external resolvers. https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-1.4/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmit.scala#L821
When running on a cluster without internet access, this means the spark shell takes forever to launch as it tries these two remote repos before the ones specified in the --repositories list. In our case we have a proxy which the cluster can access it and supply it via —repositories. This is also a problem for users who maintain a proxy for maven/ivy repos with something like Nexus/Artifactory. I see two options for a fix; * Change the order repos are added to the ChainResolver, making the --repositories supplied repos come before anything else. https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-1.4/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmit.scala#L843 * Have a config option (like spark.jars.ivy.useDefaultRemoteRepos, default true) which when false wont add the maven central & bintry to the ChainResolver. Happy to do a PR now for this if someone can give me a recommendation on which option would be better. JIRA here; https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8475 Cheers, Nathan
