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

Here is my way to solve this problem:

1. run bin/kafka-server-stop.sh to stop running kafka server.
2. modify the properties file config/server.properties by adding a line: listeners=PLAINTEXT://{ip.of.your.kafka.server}:9092
3. restart kafka server.

Since without the lisener setting, kafka will use java.net.InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName() to get the address which the socket server listens on.