Hi, I have a cluster of 3 Kafka brokers and a remote producer. Producer started to send messages to *SampleTopic*. Then I blocked the network connectivity between the Producer and the leader node for the topic *SampleTopic* but network connectivity is healthy between the cluster and producer is able to reach the other two nodes.
*With Script* sh kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost --describe Topic:SampleTopic PartitionCount:1 ReplicationFactor:3 Configs: Topic: SampleTopic Partition: 0 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1,2,0 Isr: 1,2,0 Producer tries forever to reach the leader node by throwing connection refused exception. I understand that when there is a node failure leader gets switched. Why it's not switching the leader in this scenario ? -- Kamal C