Why does zookeeper tries to connect to localhost instead of a server i have mentioned in hbase-site.xml file.

[Pavan Sudheendra <pa...@gmail.com>]

My Reduce Tasks fail because all the namenode fails trying to connect to
localhost instead of 10.34.187.170 ..


My application even tries to connect manually in the code..

Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
conf.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", "10.34.187.170");
    conf.set("hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort","2181");
    conf.set("hbase.master","10.34.187.170");

2013-08-24 20:05:36,213 INFO org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Opening
socket connection to server localhost/127.0.0.1:2181. Will not attempt to
authenticate using SASL (Unable to locate a login configuration)
2013-08-24 20:05:36,213 WARN org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Session 0x0
for server null, unexpected error, closing socket connection and attempting
reconnect
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)
    at
sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:567)
    at
org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNIO.doTransport(ClientCnxnSocketNIO.java:350)
    at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:1068)



Please help. I've been stuck for days..
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Regards-
Pavan