Perhaps this will help:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-Whycan'tmyconsumers/producersconnecttothebrokers?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:24 PM, madhavan kumar
wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am trying to connect my python consumer to a remote kafka server. But
> in kafka/conn.py#r
Dear all,
I am trying to connect my python consumer to a remote kafka server. But
in kafka/conn.py#reinit, the socket call socket.create_connection throws
"connection refused" error.
to confirm, it is not a firewall issue, i tried connecting to other servers
(in the same machine as kafka server