If the port is "0", then the OS is looking for any free port -so the port-in-use and port-below-1024 problems are highly unlikely to be the cause of the problem. Hostname confusion and network setup are the likely causes.
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/BindException
[hadoop@bigdata-server-01 ~]$ jps 27441 NodeManager 26994 DataNode 27781 Jps 27161 SecondaryNameNode 27323 ResourceManager [hadoop@bigdata-server-01 ~]$ cat hadoop-hadoop-namenode-bigdata-server-01.log 2017-11-20 01:54:26,371 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: Failed to start namenode. java.net.BindException: Problem binding to [bigdata-server-01:9000] java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address; For more details see: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/BindException at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:488) at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.wrapWithMessage(NetUtils.java:824) at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.wrapException(NetUtils.java:735) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server.bind(Server.java:561) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Listener.<init>(Server.java:1034) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server.<init>(Server.java:2735) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.<init>(RPC.java:958) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server.<init>(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:420) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine.getServer(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:341) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Builder.build(RPC.java:800) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.<init>(NameNodeRpcServer.java:431) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createRpcServer(NameNode.java:803) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:730) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:953) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:932) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1673) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1741) Caused by: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) at java.base/sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:225) at java.base/sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server.bind(Server.java:544) ... 13 more 2017-11-20 01:54:26,374 INFO org.apache.hadoop.util.ExitUtil: Exiting with status 1: java.net.BindException: Problem binding to [bigdata-server-01:9000] java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address; For more details see: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/BindException 2017-11-20 01:54:26,411 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: /************************************************************ SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at bigdata-server-01/120.78.187.72 ************************************************************/ [hadoop@bigdata-server-01 logs]$ jps