mthssdrbrg/kafka-cookbook — pull request #20 by conorbranagan (2014-02-13 17:28:45+00:00)
Title: Mod the brokerid by the largest 32bit integer

Kafka treats the broker id as a 32 bit integer but if your IP address without dots is greater than the largest 32 bit integer than Kafka will choke on start up.

Original commit by @clofresh [here](https://github.com/DataDog/kafka-cookbook/commit/a3dea34ae31efe617675e506ef551435ad1038f0). Copied into a new commit based off a more up-to-date upstream with the right attributes file.