https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Kafka-console-consumer-nor-reading-messages-when-used-with/m-p/203109#M165112 <P>Just to make sure, could you please check if the Kafka broker is listening on 172.16.3.196 machine and port number is 6667. </P> Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:43:56 GMT kramalingam 2017-08-01T14:43:56Z