Hi Fang, Are you using the producer or consumer in your application server? You need to config the bootstrap.servers so that it includes the servers that are up.
Thanks, Liquan On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Fang Wong <fw...@salesforce.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a kafka cluster of 8 servers, but only 4 of them are up, the other 4 > are down. > when I started my app server, some time it still tried to connect to the > kafka servers which are down, since the kafka server is down, my app server > couldn't start. > Not sure why it doesn't just try to connect the kafka servers which are up? > Kafka cluster doesn't handle this gracefully? > > Thanks, > Fang > -- Liquan Pei Department of Physics University of Massachusetts Amherst
