Actually, we are using custom producers, which recover fully after any disconnect-and-reconnect from Kafka. It is the High-Level consumers and Kafka itself than concerned me.
I have seen good behaviour from the system in these conditions before, but wanted to confirm. Philip On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
