No. The zookeeper client shuffles the list so that the load is distributed across all zk servers in the connection url.
Thanks, Neha On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Dennis Haller <dhal...@talenttech.com>wrote: > Hi, > > When the zk.connect property of the Kafka server is specified with a comma > separated host:port list, such as "127.0.0.1:3000,127.0.0.1:3001, > 127.0.0.1:3002"., does that mean that every ZK connection attempt goes to > the first listed server if it exists? And does that represent a risk of > driving too much traffic to one ZK node if the same zk.connect list is used > everywhere in a multi-broker system? > > Regards > Dennis >