https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Getting-error-while-opening-hive-shell/m-p/107949#M70804 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/504/kkulkarni.html" nodeid="504">@Kuldeep Kulkarni</A> : Getting connection refused as below also why we use port 9038</P><P>telnet xx.xx.xx.xx 9038</P><P>Trying xx.xx.xx.xx... telnet: connect to address xx.xx.xx.xx: Connection refused </P> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:34:01 GMT amit_dass 2016-04-20T17:34:01Z