Yes, that is all correct--the consumer will use zookeeper for discovery and then make direct connections to the appropriate brokers on 9092 or whatever port you have configured.
-Jay On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:32 PM, ravi singh <rrs120...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have few questions regarding Kafka Consumer. > > In kafka properties we only mention the zookeeper ip's to connect to. > But I assume the consumer also connects to Kafka broker for actually > consuming the messages. > > We have firewall enabled on ports, so in order to connect from my consumer > I need to open port for both zookeeper and kafka. Is my assumption correct? > > Also does the consumer also connects on the broker port (which is 9092 by > default)? > > -- > *Regards,* > *Ravi* >
