Don't let active logical broker connections hinder new connects (#2266) #2316
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The logical broker connections (such as to the group coordinator)
are reserved for specific use and shall not be reused for things like
Metadata requests. The code to lookup a usable broker to send
Metadata requests understood this, but the code to select a broker
to create a new connection to if no usable connections are
found (sparse connnections) did not understand this and already
thought there was an active connection (the logical broker connection)
and refused to set up a new one.
This could lead to consumers stalling consumption if it was fetching
from a single broker and that broker went down, no new connection
to the cluster would be made to refresh metadata.
This fixes #2266