Using Kafka 0.8 (current as of a few hours ago), I am seeing metadata requests using SimpleConsumer hang. Log below, and the call never returns or times out. Broker is working and passing traffic for other clients. Anyone else seeing this?
> DEBUG [2013-07-19 04:13:34,779] kafka.network.BlockingChannel: Created socket with SO_TIMEOUT = 5000 (requested 5000), SO_RCVBUF = 65328 (requested 65000), SO_SNDBUF = 81660 (requested -1). > TRACE [2013-07-19 04:13:34,790] kafka.network.BoundedByteBufferSend: 30 bytes written. > TRACE [2013-07-19 04:13:37,168] kafka.network.BoundedByteBufferReceive: 98 bytes read. >