this is the error appears on console on my aws instance.
2014-08-09 12:22:41,803 (lifecycleSupervisor-1-2) [INFO -org.apache.flume.source.AvroSource.start(AvroSource.java:142)] Starting Avro source fromLocal: { bindAddress: ec2-54-221-143-114.compute-1.amazonaws.com, port: 44444 }... 2014-08-09 12:22:42,072 (lifecycleSupervisor-1-1) [WARN - org.apache.flume.sink.AvroSink.start(AvroSink.java:244)] Unable to create avro client using hostname: ec2-54-221-143-114.compute-1.amazonaws.com, port: 41414 org.apache.flume.FlumeException: NettyAvroRpcClient { host: ec2-54-221-143-114.compute-1.amazonaws.com, port: 41414 }: RPC connection error at org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.connect(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:117) at org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.connect(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:93) at org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.configure(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:514) at org.apache.flume.api.RpcClientFactory.getInstance(RpcClientFactory.java:88) at org.apache.flume.sink.AvroSink.createConnection(AvroSink.java:182) at org.apache.flume.sink.AvroSink.start(AvroSink.java:242) at org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkProcessor.start(DefaultSinkProcessor.java:46) at org.apache.flume.SinkRunner.start(SinkRunner.java:79) at org.apache.flume.lifecycle.LifecycleSupervisor$MonitorRunnable.run(LifecycleSupervisor.java:236) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Error connecting to ec2-54-221-143-114.compute-1.amazonaws.com/10.80.54.114:41414 at org.apache.avro.ipc.NettyTransceiver.getChannel(NettyTransceiver.java:261) at org.apache.avro.ipc.NettyTransceiver.(NettyTransceiver.java:203) at org.apache.avro.ipc.NettyTransceiver.(NettyTransceiver.java:152) at org.apache.flume.api.NettyAvroRpcClient.connect(NettyAvroRpcClient.java:106) ... 15 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:739) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketPipelineSink$Boss.connect(NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java:401) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketPipelineSink$Boss.processSelectedKeys(NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java:370) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketPipelineSink$Boss.run(NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java:292)
