[Zookeeper-user] how to handle zookeeper server crash from client

[Ted D. <ted...@gm...>]

What is the received wisdom about how to handle the crash of a ZK server
from the client.

Clearly, reconnecting is necessary.  Should that be done by the client by
just using a watcher that probes a list of servers until it finds a live
one?

For that matter, what is best practice relative to initial connection?  Are
people using a load balancer to abstract away how many servers are in the
zookeeper cluster?  Or are they writing application code to probe the
cluster until a live server is found?

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ted