Github user zentol commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1872#issuecomment-208761034
i think the explanation should include that the test tries to download a
file from the internet, which may interfere with firewalls.
we should check whether the input data is not available, and if so skip the
test and log an error.
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