> It is definitely not a firewall or other external issue

I guess all debugging consists of finding out where you wuz wrong.

Charles

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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.")

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