I seem to unable to connect single instance of Kafka server to single instance of local zookeeper server on local host (Ubuntu 14.04LTS/ open jdk 1.7.0_75):
[2015-02-27 08:10:11,467] INFO Initiating client connection, connectString=localhost:2181 sessionTimeout=6000 watcher=org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient@5513425f (org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper) [2015-02-27 08:10:11,502] INFO Opening socket connection to server localhost/127.0.0.1:2181 (org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn) [2015-02-27 08:10:11,506] WARN Session 0x0 for server null, unexpected error, closing socket connection and attempting reconnect (org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn) java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:739) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:1146) One thread describes ipv6 as possible cause for this problem: https://gist.github.com/akiatoji/f1a5ca319325788cf287 so, i disabled ipv6, but no luck. It must be the common problem, Is there some FAQ i've missed? How can i troubleshoot it?