I assume that you are using a ZK-based producer. If brokers don't change in the window where the VPN connection is down, this may not matter. When the VPN connection is back, the ZK session will expire and the producer will establish establish a new ZK session and new connections to the brokers.
Thanks, Jun On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Philip O'Toole <phi...@loggly.com> wrote: > I want to use a ZK cluster for my Kafka cluster, which is only available > over a cross-country VPN tunnel. The VPN tunnel is prone to resets, every > other day or so, perhaps down for a couple of minutes at a time. > > Is this a concern? Any setting changes I should make to mitigate any > potential issues? Will my simple producers be affected at all, while > writing to a Kafka broker that experiences this? > > Thanks, > > Philip
