Maven Build Error - Cannot determine host information - maven

Question

I'm new to maven.
When i try to run "mvn compile" i'm getting the following error
Failed to execute goal
de.smartics.maven.plugin:buildmetadata-maven-plugin:1.4.0:provide-buildmetadata (default)
on project xxxxx:
Cannot determine host information. SJP2S5-113053048D: SJP2S5-113053048D:
nodename nor servname provided, or not known -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
Here is my settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
<localRepository/>
<interactiveMode/>
<usePluginRegistry/>
<offline/>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<!--This sends everything else to /public -->
<id>nexus</id>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
<url>http://xxxx-xxxx.xxxxx.com/xxxx/content/xxxx/public</url>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>nexus</id>
<properties>
<repo-releases-url>http://xxx-xxxxxx.xxxx.com/xxxxx/content/repositories/releases/</repo-releases-url>
<repo-snapshots-url>http://xxx-xxxxx.xxxx.com/xxxxx/content/repositories/snapshots/</repo-snapshots-url>
</properties>
<!-- Enable snapshots for the built in central repo to direct -->
<!-- all requests to nexus via the mirror -->
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles>
<!-- make the profile active all the time -->
<activeProfile>nexus</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
<pluginGroups>
<pluginGroup>com.webobjects.maven.plugins</pluginGroup>
<pluginGroup>org.mortbay.jetty</pluginGroup>
</pluginGroups>
<servers>
<server>
<id>snapshots</id>
<username>xxxx_engineer</username>
<password>xxxxx</password>
</server>
<server>
<id>thirdparty</id>
<username>xxxxx</username>
<password>xxxx</password>
</server>
</servers>
</settings>
I've tried mvn clean and mvn compile, mvn clean is successful, but mvn compile produces the error above, which I do not understand.
I've checked the link mentioned in the error, and it talks about proxy settings in the settings.xml.
I'm using
Maven 3.0.4
Jdk 1.7
MAC OS X
Below is the result for above command mvn --version
$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 14:14:56+0530)
Maven home: /Users/raghuramankumarasamy/Documents/raghu/maven/apache-maven-3.0.4
Java version: 1.7.0_75, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.10", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
I'm using mac os X
the below command hostname, gives the following result....
SJP2S5-113053048D:xxxxx raghuramankumarasamy$ hostname
SJP2S5-113053048D
Added part of pom.xml as per request
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself.-->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
<pluginExecutions>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>de.smartics.maven.plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>buildmetadata-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<versionRange>[0.0.0,)</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>provide-buildmetadata</goal>
</goals>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<ignore />
</action>
</pluginExecution>
</pluginExecutions>
</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>