https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Kafka-console-consumer-nor-reading-messages-when-used-with/m-p/203110#M165113 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/18786/kramalingam.html" nodeid="18786">@Kartik Ramalingam</A>, yes it is listening</P><PRE> netstat -na | grep 6667 tcp 0 0 172.16.3.196:6667 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 172.16.3.196:57076 172.16.3.196:6667 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.16.3.196:6667 172.16.3.197:58774 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 172.16.3.196:6667 172.16.3.197:39880 ESTABLISHED</PRE> Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:51:14 GMT arunpoy 2017-08-01T14:51:14Z