Silly question about 'rack aware'...

[Michael Segel <mi...@hotmail.com>]

Ok, 

I should know this... but just to be safe...

When setting up the rack aware script, will the input to the script always be the machine's IP address, or will it be the actual hostname?

I'm pretty sure that its the IP address, but I just wanted to make sure and cover my bases.

Thx

-Mike

 		 	   		  
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Re: Silly question about 'rack aware'...

[Eli Collins <el...@cloudera.com>]

Hey Michael,

The script specified by dfs.network.script is passed both host names
and IPs. In most cases an IP is passed, however in some cases (eg when
using dfs.hosts files) a hostname is passed.

Thanks,
Eli

ps - useful pointers:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-common-user/200911.mbox/%3C4B041EDF.8050103@videoegg.com%3E

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/topology_rack_awareness_scripts


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Michael Segel <mi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok,
>
> I should know this... but just to be safe...
>
> When setting up the rack aware script, will the input to the script always be the machine's IP address, or will it be the actual hostname?
>
> I'm pretty sure that its the IP address, but I just wanted to make sure and cover my bases.
>
> Thx
>
> -Mike
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
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