fix: NPE in ApimlPeerEurekaNode stops heartbeats

[richard-salac]

Description

When handling IOException in the ApimlPeerEurekaNode a NPE could occur that stops the thread responsible for heartbeats. The exception processing was cherry-picked from v3 #4142 .

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