Hi Ian, Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Thanks and Regards A.SathishKumar > Hi > The client initially connects to the first Broker specified in > bootstrap.servers (if that’s > not available, it’ll connect to the next one on the list, and so on). When it > does so, it > is then given information about all the Brokers in the cluster, and it > connects to all of > them. Strictly speaking, then, you only need to specify one Broker in the > bootstrap.servers > list, but if that had crashed when the client tried to connect, the client > would throw an > error after the connection attempt timed out, which is why you’d typically > specify two or > three in that list. Certainly, though, that list isn’t a list of the only > Brokers that the > client will talk to as it’s running. Ian. --- Ian Wrigley Director, Education Services Confluent, Inc > On Oct 16, 2016, at 11:17 PM, sat <sathish.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We are planning to run Kafka servers along with Zookeeper in 3 remote > machines for our cluster setup. > > We have our application with Kafka Consumer and Publisher running in > another/separate 2 machines. > > We will be configuring 1 or 2 out of 3 Kafka servers as bootstrap servers > in Kafka Consumer/Publisher properties. > > Since we are configuring 1 or 2 Kafka server IP address in bootstrap server > list, we want to know when one or both the servers configured as bootstrap > server crashes, can we still consume/publish messages to the other server > available in the cluster. If this is possible, could you please let us > know whether our application opens a socket with all 3 machines in the > server. > > Also please let us know if it is fine to configure/provide only 1 machine > out of 3 as bootstrap server. > > Please let me know if in case you need additional information. Thanks in > advance. > > > > Thanks and Regards > A.SathishKumar On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 9:17 PM, sat <sathish.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to run Kafka servers along with Zookeeper in 3 remote > machines for our cluster setup. > > We have our application with Kafka Consumer and Publisher running in > another/separate 2 machines. > > We will be configuring 1 or 2 out of 3 Kafka servers as bootstrap servers > in Kafka Consumer/Publisher properties. > > Since we are configuring 1 or 2 Kafka server IP address in bootstrap > server list, we want to know when one or both the servers configured as > bootstrap server crashes, can we still consume/publish messages to the > other server available in the cluster. If this is possible, could you > please let us know whether our application opens a socket with all 3 > machines in the server. > > Also please let us know if it is fine to configure/provide only 1 machine > out of 3 as bootstrap server. > > Please let me know if in case you need additional information. Thanks in > advance. > > > > Thanks and Regards > A.SathishKumar > > -- A.SathishKumar 044-24735023
