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JDBC Connect Time out

Lawro
New Contributor II

Anyone know why I would get the JDBC Connect error below:
java.sql.SQLException: [Databricks][JDBCDriver](500593) Communication link failure. Failed to connect to server. Reason: com.databricks.client.jdbc42.internal.apache.http.conn.ConnectTimeoutException: Connect to <REDACTED> [<REDACTED>] failed: Connect timed out.
at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.api.HS2Client.handleTTransportException(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.spark.jdbc.DownloadableFetchClient.handleTTransportException(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.api.HS2Client.openSession(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.api.HS2Client.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.spark.jdbc.DownloadableFetchClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.spark.jdbc.DownloadableFetchClientFactory.createClient(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.core.HiveJDBCCommonConnection.connectToServer(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.spark.core.SparkJDBCConnection.connectToServer(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.hivecommon.core.HiveJDBCCommonConnection.establishConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.spark.core.SparkJDBCConnection.establishConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.jdbc.core.LoginTimeoutConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.jdbc.common.BaseConnectionFactory.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at com.databricks.client.jdbc.common.AbstractDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.sql/java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:681)
at java.sql/java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:252)
at com.ataccama.dbr.DatabricksJDBC.main(DatabricksJDBC.java:24)
Caused by: com.databricks.client.support.exceptions.ErrorException: [Databricks][JDBCDriver](500593) Communication link failure. Failed to connect to server. Reason: com.databricks.client.jdbc42.internal.apache.http.conn.ConnectTimeoutException: Connect to <REDACTED> [<REDACTED>] failed: Connect timed out.

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Alberto_Umana
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Hi @Lawro,

That normally happens whenever there is a network issue or firewall blocking the request. Is it failing consistently and have you tested connectivity to your SQL instance using nc -vz command via a notebook?

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