KIP-271 — Add NetworkClient redirector
Discussion Client
KIP-271 proposes a `NetworkClientRedirector` plugin interface that intercepts broker address resolution in `NetworkClient`, allowing clients to remap internal broker hostnames to externally reachable addresses. Clients connecting to Kafka from outside a private network (e.g., from outside Kubernetes or AWS VPC) fail after the initial bootstrap because subsequent metadata responses contain internal DNS names unreachable from the client.
Details
| Author | Sergey Korytnikov |
| Status | Discussion |
| JIRA | KAFKA-6669 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2018-03-16 |
| Last Modified | 2018-12-18 |
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