Solved the issue,   It was the etc/hosts file causing issue.   Had to add the highlighted red text on the etc/hosts file   127.0.0.1   localhost.hadoopdomain localhost ::1         localhost.hadoopdomain localhost 127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1   localdomain localhost 192.168.1.8 base.hadoopdomain.com base base.hadoopdomain 192.168.1.6 node1.hadoopdomain.com node1 node1.hadoopdomain 192.168.1.7 node2.hadoopdomain.com node2 node2.hadoopdomain     Regards, Pranay Vyas     ... View more