Hi devs, I have created new KIP-271 for discussion: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-271%3A+Add+NetworkClient+redirector Kafka JIRA issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6669
The fix has been implemented and tested with version 1.0 and trunk snapshot of clients jar. Changes are available here: https://github.com/ssbiox/kafka/tree/trunk-redirector Diff of changes: https://github.com/apache/kafka/compare/trunk...ssbiox:trunk-redirector Thank you, Sergey