title: Is there any way to check if kafka is up and running from kafka-net
body: <p>I am using kafka-net client to send messages to kafka. I'm just wondering if there is any way to check is kafka server up and can receive messages. I shut kafka down, but the producer has been created successfully and SendMessageAsync just freezes for quite a long time. I've tried to pass timeout but it doesn't change anything. I use kafka-net 0.9
  It works just fine when kafka server is up and running</p>