kafka-python: producer is not able to connect

Question

kafka-python (1.0.0) throws error while connecting to the broker. At the same time /usr/bin/kafka-console-producer and /usr/bin/kafka-console-consumer work fine.

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Answer 1

I had a similar problem. In my case, broker hostname was unresolvable on the client side . Try to explicitly set advertised.host.name in the configuration file.