[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-4260) Improve documentation of configuration listeners=PLAINTEXT://0.0.0.0:9092

["Michal Turek (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Michal Turek created KAFKA-4260:
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             Summary: Improve documentation of configuration listeners=PLAINTEXT://0.0.0.0:9092
                 Key: KAFKA-4260
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4260
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: documentation
    Affects Versions: 0.10.0.1
            Reporter: Michal Turek
            Priority: Minor


We have just updated our testing Kafka cluster to 0.10 and we were facing one issue with migration of legacy 0.8 configuration to

{noformat}
listeners=PLAINTEXT://0.0.0.0:9092
# advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://myPublicHostName:9092    # REQUIRED for 0.0.0.0:9092
{noformat}

This configuration will be invalid if {{advertised.listeners}} is not set too. Connection string 0.0.0.0:9092 is stored to ZooKeeper according to documentation of  {{advertised.listeners}} and observed behavior, but it isn't obvious and difficult to analyze. Clients and even other brokers try to communicate with brokers using destination address 0.0.0.0:9092, which is impossible. Specification of {{advertised.listeners}} as shown above fixed the issue.

Please update documentation at http://kafka.apache.org/0100/documentation#brokerconfigs and backport the change to 0.9 and 0.10 branches.

h4. advertised.listeners
Listeners to publish to ZooKeeper for clients to use, if different than the *`listeners`* -above-. In IaaS environments, this may need to be different from the interface to which the broker binds. If this is not set, the value for `listeners` will be used.

h4. listeners
Listener List - Comma-separated list of URIs we will listen on and their protocols. Specify hostname as 0.0.0.0 to bind to all interfaces *(note `advertised.listeners` configuration is required for 0.0.0.0)*. Leave hostname empty to bind to default interface. Examples of legal listener lists: PLAINTEXT://myhost:9092,TRACE://:9091 PLAINTEXT://0.0.0.0:9092, TRACE://localhost:9093



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