Again thank you for your patience.... Is the following pattern normal for a broker that is booting? This is from my zookeeper log. It seems to connect and disconnect multiple times in rapid succession. The last message is a disconnect message with no subsequent connect. Other zookeeper boxes don't show any activity for this ip address.
2014-03-25 12:21:18,906 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn$Factory@251] - Accepted socket connection from /10.120.80.36:34417 2014-03-25 12:21:18,908 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@777] - Client attempting to establish new session at /10.120.80.36:34417 2014-03-25 12:21:18,924 - INFO [CommitProcessor:1:NIOServerCnxn@1580] - Established session 0x144f6b7e58f009b with negotiated timeout 30000 for client /10.120.80.36:34417 2014-03-25 12:21:24,958 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@1435] - Closed socket connection for client /10.120.80.36:34417 which had sessionid 0x144f6b7e58f009b 2014-03-25 12:21:28,229 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn$Factory@251] - Accepted socket connection from /10.120.80.36:34422 2014-03-25 12:21:28,231 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@777] - Client attempting to establish new session at /10.120.80.36:34422 2014-03-25 12:21:28,239 - INFO [CommitProcessor:1:NIOServerCnxn@1580] - Established session 0x144f6b7e58f009c with negotiated timeout 30000 for client /10.120.80.36:34422 2014-03-25 12:21:34,538 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@1435] - Closed socket connection for client /10.120.80.36:34422 which had sessionid 0x144f6b7e58f009c 2014-03-25 12:22:39,452 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn$Factory@251] - Accepted socket connection from /10.120.80.36:39296 2014-03-25 12:22:39,455 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@777] - Client attempting to establish new session at /10.120.80.36:39296 2014-03-25 12:22:39,476 - INFO [CommitProcessor:1:NIOServerCnxn@1580] - Established session 0x144f6b7e58f009d with negotiated timeout 6000 for client /10.120.80.36:39296 2014-03-25 12:24:58,851 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn$Factory@251] - Accepted socket connection from /10.120.80.36:39332 2014-03-25 12:24:58,854 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@777] - Client attempting to establish new session at /10.120.80.36:39332 2014-03-25 12:24:58,867 - INFO [CommitProcessor:1:NIOServerCnxn@1580] - Established session 0x144f6b7e58f009e with negotiated timeout 30000 for client /10.120.80.36:39332 2014-03-25 12:25:06,892 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181:NIOServerCnxn@1435] - Closed socket connection for client /10.120.80.36:39332 which had sessionid 0x144f6b7e58f009e