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Ismael Juma commented on KAFKA-2998: ------------------------------------ Thanks for the report. Is this a duplicate of KAFKA-1894? > New Consumer should not retry indefinitely if no broker is available > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2998 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2998 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: clients > Affects Versions: 0.9.0.0 > Reporter: Florian Hussonnois > Priority: Minor > > If no broker from bootstrap.servers is available consumer retries > indefinitely with debug log message : > > DEBUG 17:16:13 Give up sending metadata request since no node is available > DEBUG 17:16:13 Initialize connection to node -1 for sending metadata request > DEBUG 17:16:13 Initiating connection to node -1 at localhost:9091. > At least, an ERROR message should be log after a number of retries. > In addition, maybe the consumer should fail in a such case ? This behavior > could be set by a configuration property ? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)