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HDP3.0: knox fails to dispatch webhdfs request due to whitelist validation

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Rising Star

Hi,

I am using HDP3.0 and ambari 2.7 blueprint. webhdfs via knox failed due to:

2018-08-21 19:26:33,035 ERROR knox.gateway (GatewayDispatchFilter.java:isDispatchAllowed(155)) - The dispatch to http://myhost.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user was disallowed because it fails the dispatch whitelist validation. See documentation for dispatch whitelisting.

I have verified webhdfs without knox works:

curl -vvv http://myhost.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/?op=LISTSTATUS

Also, ambari, zeppelin and ranger UI work fine via knox.

The knox settings are:

gateway.dispatch.whitelist: DEFAULT

gateway.dispatch.whitelist.services: DATANODE,HBASEUI,HDFSUI,JOBHISTORYUI,NODEUI,RESOURCEMANAGER,WEBHBASE,WEBHDFS,YARNUI

webhdfs via knox worked for me on HDP2.6. Any idea? Appreciate any help.

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Rising Star

None of Ambari, Zeppelin, or RangerUI are affected by this whitelisting.

Can you see the default whitelist in gateway.log?

It should say something like

Applying a derived dispatch whitelist because none is configured in gateway-site: xxxxxxx

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Explorer

I have fill that property with


gateway.dispatch.whitelist --> ^https?:\/\/(my.domain.com|127\.0\.0\.1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|::1):[0-9].*$


But i have all the time the same error


ERROR knox.gateway (GatewayDispatchFilter.java:isDispatchAllowed(155)) - The dispatch to http://my.domain.com:50070/webhdfs/v1/ was disallowed because it fails the dispatch whitelist validation. See documentation for dispatch whitelisting.


Thanks

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Contributor

I ran into a similar issue to this as well. It looks like when it derives the RegEX based off the DEFAULT. We found that it used the URL from the Provider we used setting up the SSO client we had typed in just the Hostname for the Knox Server. It then resulted in the following Default white list:

INFO  knox.gateway (WhitelistUtils.java:getDispatchWhitelist(63)) - Applying a derived dispatch whitelist because none is configured in gateway-site: ^/.*$;^https?://ambari30l:[0-9]+/?.*$

After redoing the SSO setup with the FQDN for the host it resolved the "DEFAULT" Lookup and was able to find the hosts properly.

INFO  knox.gateway (WhitelistUtils.java:getDispatchWhitelist(63)) - Applying a derived dispatch whitelist because none is configured in gateway-site: ^/.*$;^https?://ambari30l.mydomain.com:[0-9]+/?.*$

Hopefully this help others in troubleshooting this issue in the future.

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New Contributor

Ssumers,

Can you please share the value you added in gateway.dispatch.whitelist?