connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused

Question

While installing hadoop in my local machine , i got following error

ssh -vvv localhost 
OpenSSH_5.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e-fips 6 Sep 2011 
debug1: Reading configura         


        

Answer 1

You may should edit your /etc/hosts. For example if my hostname is ub0, but the hostname in /etc/hosts is localhost, it may occur

connect to host ub0 port 22: Connection refused

Because the hostname in /etc/hosts is localhost not ub0.

So, you should be careful the hostname when building up distributed clusters.