HADOOP-17068. Client fails forever when namenode ipaddr changed. Contributed by Sean Chow.

(cherry picked from commit fa14e4bc00)
(cherry picked from commit 3a860e876e)
(cherry picked from commit 8d7600ae6b)
(cherry picked from commit 1fe15113cf)

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java

@@ -652,6 +652,7 @@ public class Client implements AutoCloseable {
     
     private synchronized void setupConnection(
         UserGroupInformation ticket) throws IOException {
+      LOG.debug("Setup connection to " + server.toString());
       short ioFailures = 0;
       short timeoutFailures = 0;
       while (true) {
@@ -713,8 +714,16 @@ public class Client implements AutoCloseable {
         } catch (IOException ie) {
           if (updateAddress()) {
             timeoutFailures = ioFailures = 0;
-          }
+            try {
+              // HADOOP-17068: when server changed, ignore the exception.
               handleConnectionFailure(ioFailures++, ie);
+            } catch (IOException ioe) {
+              LOG.warn("Exception when handle ConnectionFailure: "
+                  + ioe.getMessage());
+            }
+          } else {
+            handleConnectionFailure(ioFailures++, ie);
+          }
         }
       }
     }
@@ -1279,7 +1288,7 @@ public class Client implements AutoCloseable {
           cleanupCalls();
         }
       } else {
-        // log the info
+        // Log the newest server information if update address.
         if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
           LOG.debug("closing ipc connection to " + server + ": " +
               closeException.getMessage(),closeException);