Perhaps this will help: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-Whycan'tmyconsumers/producersconnecttothebrokers?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:24 PM, madhavan kumar <madhavan020...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > I am trying to connect my python consumer to a remote kafka server. But > in kafka/conn.py#reinit, the socket call socket.create_connection throws > "connection refused" error. > to confirm, it is not a firewall issue, i tried connecting to other servers > (in the same machine as kafka server) from my local m/c and the socket > connection works. connection refused happens, only for kafka server. > i am running kafka-0.8.2 and in which log file, can i see the stacktraces > (or) more useful information for errors related to connection requests? > > thanks, > saravana