Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2397
The validation code may easily fail if the broker list format is off.
How about only doing extra work in case of a
`java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException`? You can catch the exception,
validate, throw a better exception in that case, or rethrow the original
exception.
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