title: JDBC Phoenix driver for HBASE, retries 36 and throws exception
body: <p>I have a standalone HBase installed in a server(Remote).
  I written a Java Client, which communicates using Phoenix, and saw it tries for 36 attempts and hence throws exception.<br></p>
  
  <pre><code>HBase-Version : 1.1.5
  Phoenix-core: 4.8.0-HBase-1.1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>ConnectionString:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Class.forName("org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver");
  Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:phoenix:192.168.1.xxx:2181");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I missing somethinghere, cz its not connecting at all.</p>
  
  <p>Exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RetriesExhaustedException: Failed after attempts=36, exceptions:
  Mon Oct 17 11:50:18 IST 2016, null, java.net.SocketTimeoutException: callTimeout=60000, callDuration=80992: row 'SYSTEM:CATALOG,,' on table 'hbase:meta' at region=hbase:meta,,1.1588230740, hostname=HOSTNAME,16201,1476683863488, seqNum=0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can some one help me out..!</p>