Containerized Kafka client errors when producing messages to the host Kafka server

Question

There are a number of similar types of queries on stackoverflow, but none quite match the problem that I am seeing.

I have a zookeeper/kafka setup on my server which

Answer 1

Aha! After further reading and the answers given above the solution came. As is often the case it is an easy one. A simple edit of the kafka server.properties file:

advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://192.168.2.80:9092

Also note, the parameter 'listeners' is not set in this file.