title: HappyBase - not showing results
body: <p>Am trying to connect to hbase from python using HappyBase </p>
  
  <p>Here is the code which am trying  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;import happybase
  &gt;connection = happybase.Connection(host = &lt;myHost&gt;,port = &lt;myPort&gt;)
     &lt;happybase.connection.Connection object at 0x7ff46c527bd0&gt;
  &gt;connection.tables()
     ---&gt; runs for real long time never ending &lt;----
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Same when I try to access a table</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;import happybase
  &gt;connection = happybase.Connection(host = &lt;someHost&gt;,port = &lt;somePort&gt;, autoconnect=False)
  &gt;connection.open()
  &gt;table = connection.table('myTable')
     &lt;happybase.table.Table name='myTable'&gt;
  &gt;row = table.row('1234')
      -----&gt; Nothing shows up - takes forever &lt;-------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone help me understand what's going wrong. </p>
  
  <p>Btw, am using:  </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>java version "1.8.0_60"<br>
    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build1.8.0_60-b27)<br>
    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Regards</p>