(Writing this out here for posterity and people seeing similar items.)

A little while ago I erroneously thought that gnatsd might use openssl and thus 
had gnatsd tagged to restart on openssl package update via puppet. (Found 
https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/ssl/, untagged the gnatsd service.)

While gnatsd itself was fine after the restart, the server was not happy with 
~1.9k mcollectived reconnecting at once.

Mar 21 12:24:48 mcomq2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 4242. Sending 
cookies.

The affected mcollectived were logging this and not retrying:

W, [2017-03-21T10:55:43.213823 #9006]  WARN -- : natswrapper.rb:117:in `block 
(3 levels) in start' Disconnected from NATS: Client disconnected from server on 
nats://mcomq2.me.com:4242

The solution was two-part:

1) Upgrade choria to be able to update from eventmachine+nats gems to nats-pure 
0.2.2.

https://github.com/nats-io/pure-ruby-nats
https://github.com/choria-io/mcollective-choria

2) Add some sysctls on the mcomq host to accomodate the initial rush of 
connections.

sysctl { 'net.core.somaxconn': value => '4092' }
sysctl { 'net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog': value => '8192' }

https://forge.puppet.com/thias/sysctl

After that it has been back to smooth sailing.

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