Github user nkalmar commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/549#discussion_r198407883 --- Diff: src/java/main/org/apache/zookeeper/server/quorum/QuorumPeer.java --- @@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ public QuorumServer(long sid, String addressStr) throws ConfigException { throw new ConfigException("Address unresolved: " + serverParts[0] + ":" + serverParts[2]); } + if(addr.getPort() == electionAddr.getPort()) { + throw new ConfigException( + "Client and election port must be different! Please update the configuration file on server." + sid); + } + --- End diff -- Good question. Well, as what I can see it is only used for test, and it is called programmatically, so not from reading a config. The intention here was to make sure that ZK is not misconfigured. So I'm open to adding it there also, just my initial thinking was it is not necessary.
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