I think, if kafka can not identify hostname by its own, try to set the hostname in the server.properties. Would this work for you?
-- Markus Roder Am 20.06.2013 um 17:56 schrieb "Yu, Libo " <libo...@citi.com>: > Hi, > > I set up kafka on a linux vm player. There is no hostname with it. > So I used IP in all configuration files. I assume that should work. > But I got an exception and kafka asked for hostname. That seems > to be a bug. > > Regards, > > Libo >