[stunnel-users] /var/log/syslog is filling up with stunnel errors

[digitek]

Hi,
I've been running stunnel for years to shuttle my syslogs off to a syslog server. It's performed flawlessly up until a few weeks ago. Recently, rebooting my syslog server results in the clients filling up /var/log/syslog 
with messages like below[1].

I'm not certain where the issue is. We've gone through some Ubuntu 16.04 > 18.04 upgrades on some hosts, as well as the syslog server. Is there a configuration item in stunnel to at least tell it to chill out a little and 
not try reconnecting 1000 times a second?  My config from a client is here[2]

Last time this happened (few weeks ago) I googled around and found the TIMEOUTconnect parameter to try and get stunnel to at least wait 10 seconds before attempting another connect, but guess it doesn't work that way.

Any thoughts? The stunnel client is on Ubuntu 18.04. I'd rather not compile out-of-band for the latest stunnel version unless I must. I"m assuming this is a config issue on my end.  The version I'm stuck with right now is 
stunnel 5.44 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform

Thanks!

[1]
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG5[44922183]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG5[44922184]: Service [syslog_tunnel] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:55440
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG3[44922184]: s_connect: connect 192.168.1.96:51400: Connection refused (111)
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG3[44922184]: No more addresses to connect
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG5[44922184]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG5[44922185]: Service [syslog_tunnel] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:55444
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG3[44922185]: s_connect: connect 192.168.1.96:51400: Connection refused (111)
May 23 17:42:04 shuriken stunnel: LOG3[44922185]: No more addresses to connect


[2]
client   = yes
cert     = /etc/stunnel/shared/stunnel.pem
pid      = /var/run/stunnel4/syslog_stunnel.pid

[syslog_tunnel]
accept   = 127.0.0.1:5140
connect  = 192.168.1.96:51400
TIMEOUTconnect = 10