Description
One ec2 (hostA) with producer wants to push to a topic on a different ec2 (hostB). hostB has got an ELB (hostC) in front of it. From my experimentation and reading docs online Kafka does not support hostA producer connecting to ELB name (and letting the ELB redirect to the hostB ec2)'s topic.
Other tool servers (Atlas, Hive.etc) allow hostA to reference remote ELB and have the ELB direct the connection to hostB where the tool servers run.