Kafka consumer fetching metadata for topics failed

Question

I am attempting to write a Java client for a third party\'s Kafka and ZooKeeper servers. I am able to list and describe topics, but when I attempt to read any, a Close

Answer 1

The broker tells the client which hostname should be used to produce/consume messages. By default Kafka uses the hostname of the system it runs on. If this hostname can not be resolved by the client side you get this exception.

You can try setting advertised.host.name in the Kafka configuration to an hostname/address which the clients should use.