Rsyslog service restart is initiating pings from clients to rsyslog server

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Issue

  • Whenever rsyslog service is restarted, we see that the server initiates ping to various other servers in the environment. We want to understand what is causing this and how to fix it.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • rsyslog
  • UDP

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