Charles Mills wrote:

>And the answer is ...

And I hear a drrrrrrum rrrrrollll! ;-D

>A bug in my code was causing my software to *very occasionally* send out a 
>message in which the initial part of the message was malformed for the 
>protocol it implements. (Syslog, in the UNIX/RFC 3164 sense of the word, not 
>in the MVS SYSLOG sense of the word.)

Ouch...

>An Intrusion Protection System was then shutting down the path on the theory 
>that this was some sort of malware attack. 

Very interesting, so it was indeed an external issue triggered by your bug. 
(First post: "It is definitely not a firewall or other external issue because 
Version x.1 works fine.")

>Working on a fix ...

Good luck!  I hope you can get it sorted out!

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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