title: Connecting Apache Consumer to a single node on a Kafka Cluster
body: <p>I have a Kafka cluster on a private LAN, I want to have a consumer access the data on a different LAN, due to <strong>network restrictions</strong>, I can only access the main IP address (no DNS) of the cluster, let's call it <em>master-node</em>.</p>
  
  <p>My consumer connects to the cluster without a problem, but the cluster instructs the consumer to fetch data from <em>node1</em>, <em>node2</em> and <em>node3</em>, which I do NOT have network access to. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to ask the <em>master-node</em> to gather the data on behalf of my consumer?</p>