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From: Harsh J <harsh@cloudera.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:40:58 +0530
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Subject: Re: connection error to remote hbase node
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Richard,

Do you perhaps have a stray /etc/zookeeper/zoo.cfg file lying around
on your client node?

I think the issue may be that its picking up a default of localhost
from reading an non-configured zoo.cfg on the classpath.

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Richard Tang <tristartom.tech@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a connection problem on setting up hbase on remote node. The
> ``hbase`` instance is on a machine ``nodeA``. when I am trying to use hbase
> on ``nodeA`` from another machine (say ``nodeB``), it complains
>
>> Session 0x0 for server null, unexpected error, closing socket connection
> and attempting reconnect
>
>> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
>
>> ...
>
> Also, I used hbase shell from ``nodeB`` to test hbase against ``nodeA``,
> but still without success. In the shell, when issuing ``list``, it gets
> stuck there...
>
> To diagnose, I can however run following test program with success.
> 1.zkcli utility can be tested against zookeeper on ``ndoeA``, as
>
>> ./bin/hbase zkcli -server nodeA:2181
>
> 2.I can also successfully ``ssh`` to the node, like ``ssh -X root@nodeA``.
> What could possibly be the reason for that error?
>
> regards,
> Tang


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Harsh J