Gwen Shapira created KAFKA-1615: ----------------------------------- Summary: Generating group ID in ZookeeperConsumerConnector shouldn't require local hostname to resolve Key: KAFKA-1615 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1615 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.8.1.1 Reporter: Gwen Shapira Assignee: Gwen Shapira Priority: Minor
ZookeeperConsumerConnector generates group ID by taking the local hostname: consumerUuid = "%s-%d-%s".format( InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostName, System.currentTimeMillis, uuid.getMostSignificantBits().toHexString.substring(0,8)) If localhost doesn't resolve (something that happens occasionally), this will fail with following error: Exception in thread "main" java.net.UnknownHostException: Billc-cent70x64: Billc-cent70x64: Name or service not known at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1473) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:119) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:142) at kafka.consumer.Consumer$.create(ConsumerConnector.scala:89) at kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer$.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala:149) at kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala) Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: Billc-cent70x64: Name or service not known at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method) at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:901) at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1293) at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1469) ... 5 more Normally requiring a resolving localhost is not a problem, but here is seems a bit frivolous - its just for generating an ID, nothing network related. I think we can catch the exception and generate an ID without the hostname. This is low priority since the issue can be easily worked around (add the hostname to /etc/hosts) and since this API is going away anyway with the new consumer API. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)