topology script called with host names instead of IP addresses --------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6397 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6397 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: util Affects Versions: 0.20.1 Reporter: Christian Kunz According to the 'Hadoop Rack Awareness' section on http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/cluster_setup.html the script/program topology.script.file.name can assume that names are passed in as IP addresses. This seems to work for hdfs, but the rack-awareness of the JobTracker does not always work, depending on the hostnames of the cluster, because of a bug in the method normalizeHostName of org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.java: It returns the host name as-is when it decides that the string passed-in is already an IP but actually it checks whether the string starts with a valid hex character! There is no need to check at all, because InetAddress.getByName is smart enough to not do a dns lookup when the name is an IP address. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.