The solution is much Simpler   In the HDFS configuration in cloudera there is a property called Bind NameNode to Wildcard Address. You just need to check the box and it will bind the service on 0.0.0.0   then restart hdfs service   [cloudera@localhost ~]$ sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :8020 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8020 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 29966/java   ... View more