Hello Bansal, Thanks for your reply. the statement returned nothing. I think i figured out what the issue is. no agent listening to that port. when flume listens, telnet works. When I start the Flume agent and when the agent is running/listening to the port 2222 in localhost, my telnet works without any issues. as soon as i kill my flume agent , telnet stops working. looks like I got some understanding on how flume agent works. will continue my learning .. Thanks, Ram ... View more