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  1. Hadoop Common
  2. HADOOP-2185

Server ports: to roll or not to roll.

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.15.0
    • 0.16.0
    • conf
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    Description

      Looked at the issues related to port rolling. My impression is that port rolling is required only for the unit tests to run.
      Even the name-node port should roll there, which we don't have now, in order to be able to start 2 cluster for testing say dist cp.

      For real clusters on the contrary port rolling is not desired and some times even prohibited.
      So we should have a way of to ban port rolling. My proposition is to

      1. use ephemeral port 0 if port rolling is desired
      2. if a specific port is specified then port rolling should not happen at all, meaning that a
        server is either able or not able to start on that particular port.

      The desired port is specified via configuration parameters.

      • Name-node: fs.default.name = host:port
      • Data-node: dfs.datanode.port
      • Job-tracker: mapred.job.tracker = host:port
      • Task-tracker: mapred.task.tracker.report.bindAddress = host
        Task-tracker currently does not have an option to specify port, it always uses the ephemeral port 0,
        and therefore I propose to add one.
      • Secondary node does not need a port to listen on.

      For info servers we have two sets of config variables *.info.bindAddress and *.info.port
      except for the task tracker, which calls them *.http.bindAddress and *.http.port instead of "info".
      With respect to the info servers I propose to completely eliminate the port parameters, and form
      *.info.bindAddress = host:port
      Info servers should do the same thing, namely start or fail on the specified port if it is not 0,
      and start on any free port if it is ephemeral.

      For the task-tracker I would rename tasktracker.http.bindAddress to mapred.task.tracker.info.bindAddress
      For the data-node the info dfs.datanode.info.bindAddress should be included into the default config.
      Is there a reason why it is not there?

      This is the summary of proposed changes:

      Server current name = value proposed name = value
      NameNode fs.default.name = host:port same
        dfs.info.bindAddress = host dfs.http.bindAddress = host:port
      DataNode dfs.datanode.bindAddress = host dfs.datanode.bindAddress = host:port
        dfs.datanode.port = port eliminate
        dfs.datanode.info.bindAddress = host dfs.datanode.http.bindAddress = host:port
        dfs.datanode.info.port = port eliminate
      JobTracker mapred.job.tracker = host:port same
        mapred.job.tracker.info.bindAddress = host mapred.job.tracker.http.bindAddress = host:port
        mapred.job.tracker.info.port = port eliminate
      TaskTracker mapred.task.tracker.report.bindAddress = host mapred.task.tracker.report.bindAddress = host:port
        tasktracker.http.bindAddress = host mapred.task.tracker.http.bindAddress = host:port
        tasktracker.http.port = port eliminate
      SecondaryNameNode dfs.secondary.info.bindAddress = host dfs.secondary.http.bindAddress = host:port
        dfs.secondary.info.port = port eliminate

      Do we also want to set some uniform naming convention for the configuration variables?
      Like having hdfs instead of dfs, or info instead of http, or systematically using either datanode
      or data.node would make that look better in my opinion.

      So these are all api changes. I would really like some feedback on this, especially from
      people who deal with configuration issues on practice.

      Attachments

        1. FixedPorts4.patch
          63 kB
          Konstantin Shvachko
        2. FixedPorts3.patch
          63 kB
          Konstantin Shvachko
        3. port.stack
          14 kB
          Dhruba Borthakur

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