Thanks Shawn. I'm leaning towards a retry as well. So, there's no mechanism that currently exists within Solr that would allow me to automatically retry the zookeeper connection on launch?
My options then would be: 1. Externally monitor the status of Solr (eg /solr/admin/collections?action=CLUSTERSTATUS or bin/solr status) and force a restart. 2. Write a patch to retry Zookeeper connections based on some configuration values that specify attempts and wait times. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Why-Doesn-t-Solr-Really-Quit-on-Zookeeper-Exceptions-tp4279971p4279987.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.