ok i could live with setting mapred.job.tracker manually for the code for now. This way it can connect now to the proper jobtracker.
> The hadoop map tasks will need to connect to the kafka server port (the > broker uri/port). i run the hadoop soncumer on the same hostA where the kafka-server is running. each of the host in the hadoop cluster can telnet/nmap to port 9092 on hostA where the kafka-server is running. also HostA can connect to port 5181 on any host in the cluster. but each task fails with a similar connection issue : java.io.IOException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at kafka.etl.KafkaETLRecordReader.next(KafkaETLRecordReader.java:155) at kafka.etl.KafkaETLRecordReader.next(KafkaETLRecordReader.java:14) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$TrackedRecordReader.moveToNext(MapTask.java:210) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$TrackedRecordReader.next(MapTask.java:195) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:48) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:393) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:326) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:268) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1074) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:262) Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:500) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.connect(SimpleConsumer.scala:54) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.getOrMakeConnection(SimpleConsumer.scala:193) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.getOffsetsBefore(SimpleConsumer.scala:156) at kafka.javaapi.consumer.SimpleConsumer.getOffsetsBefore(SimpleConsumer.scala:65) at kafka.etl.KafkaETLContext.getOffsetRange(KafkaETLContext.java:209) at kafka.etl.KafkaETLContext.<init>(KafkaETLContext.java:97) at kafka.etl.KafkaETLRecordReader.next(KafkaETLRecordReader.java:115) ... 11 more