Jun Rao created KAFKA-3068: ------------------------------ Summary: NetworkClient may connect to a different Kafka cluster than originally configured Key: KAFKA-3068 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3068 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: clients Affects Versions: 0.9.0.0 Reporter: Jun Rao
In https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/290, we added the logic to cache all brokers (id and ip) that the client has ever seen. If we can't find an available broker from the current Metadata, we will pick a broker that we have ever seen (in NetworkClient.leastLoadedNode()). One potential problem this logic can introduce is the following. Suppose that we have a broker with id 1 in a Kafka cluster. A producer client remembers this broker in nodesEverSeen. At some point, we bring down this broker and use the host in a different Kafka cluster. Then, the producer client uses this broker from nodesEverSeen to refresh metadata. It will find the metadata in a different Kafka cluster and start producing data there. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)