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  1. Kafka
  2. KAFKA-12513

Kafka zookeeper client can't connect when the first zookeeper server is offline

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Invalid
    • 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.7.0
    • None
    • zkclient
    • None
    • kafka_2.13-2.7.0, kernel 5.4.0-52-generic (Ubuntu), Scala 2.13.3-400

    Description

      Kafka zookeeper client library will not connect to any zookeepers in the "zookeeper string" when the first zookeeper is offline. This causes the cluster to crash hard and in order to get the cluster back into healthy state the first zookeeper node must be resurrected.

      The crash does not always happen immediately after zk0 goes offline, because kafka might have connections established to different zookeeper instances. When the connection gets dropped and kafka needs to reconnect everything crashes hard.

       

      Demo:

      This works:

       root@kafka0:/opt/kafka/current/bin# ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk0.gambit:2181/hex8c,zk1.gambit:2181/hex8c,zk2.gambit:2181/hex8c --describe  --topic duma
      Topic: duma	PartitionCount: 6	ReplicationFactor: 3	Configs: compression.type=uncompressed,retention.bytes=322122547200
      	Topic: duma	Partition: 0	Leader: 1	Replicas: 1,0,2	Isr: 1,0,2
      	Topic: duma	Partition: 1	Leader: 2	Replicas: 2,1,0	Isr: 0,1,2
      	Topic: duma	Partition: 2	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0,2,1	Isr: 0,1,2
      	Topic: duma	Partition: 3	Leader: 1	Replicas: 1,2,0	Isr: 1,0,2
      	Topic: duma	Partition: 4	Leader: 2	Replicas: 2,0,1	Isr: 1,0,2
      	Topic: duma	Partition: 5	Leader: 0	Replicas: 0,1,2	Isr: 0,1,2
      

      Now let's mess with the zookeeper string and see how zookeeper client reacts:

      Changing the last server in the zookeeper string works as expected, kafka-topics.sh connected to zookeeper but couldn't find the topic (because of bogus zookeeper string):

      root@kafka0:/opt/kafka/current/bin# ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk0.gambit:2181/hex8c,zk1.gambit:2181/hex8c,1.1.1.1:2181/hex8c --describe --topic duma
      Error while executing topic command : Topic 'duma' does not exist as expected
      [2021-03-20 23:01:45,535] ERROR java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Topic 'duma' does not exist as expected
      	at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.kafka$admin$TopicCommand$$ensureTopicExists(TopicCommand.scala:484)
      	at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$ZookeeperTopicService.describeTopic(TopicCommand.scala:390)
      	at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:67)
      	at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)
       (kafka.admin.TopicCommand$) 

      However, in case the first server in the zookeeper cluster is unavailable zookeeper client won't connect to any of the zookeepers:

      root@kafka0:/opt/kafka/current/bin# ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 1.1.1.1:2181/hex8c,zk1.gambit:2181/hex8c,zk2.gambit:2181/hex8c --describe --topic duma
      [2021-03-20 23:02:43,888] WARN Client session timed out, have not heard from server in 30012ms for sessionid 0x0 (org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn)
      Exception in thread "main" kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClientTimeoutException: Timed out waiting for connection while in state: CONNECTING
      	at kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClient.$anonfun$waitUntilConnected$3(ZooKeeperClient.scala:259)
      	at kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClient$$Lambda$31.000000005D399170.apply$mcV$sp(Unknown Source)
      	at scala.runtime.java8.JFunction0$mcV$sp.apply(JFunction0$mcV$sp.scala:18)
      	at kafka.utils.CoreUtils$.inLock(CoreUtils.scala:253)
      	at kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClient.waitUntilConnected(ZooKeeperClient.scala:255)
      	at kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClient.<init>(ZooKeeperClient.scala:113)
      	at kafka.zk.KafkaZkClient$.apply(KafkaZkClient.scala:1858)
      	at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$ZookeeperTopicService$.apply(TopicCommand.scala:321)
      	at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:54)
      	at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala) 

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