From a9284393b04e58da096520454ee2a91e6eb28b1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Naquin <mike.naquin@ncr.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 12:21:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow RemoteSyslogChannel to be used again after being
 closed.

---
 Net/src/RemoteSyslogChannel.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Net/src/RemoteSyslogChannel.cpp b/Net/src/RemoteSyslogChannel.cpp
index b9a2f5f86..a33aefd6a 100644
--- a/Net/src/RemoteSyslogChannel.cpp
+++ b/Net/src/RemoteSyslogChannel.cpp
@@ -88,7 +88,10 @@ RemoteSyslogChannel::~RemoteSyslogChannel()
 void RemoteSyslogChannel::open()
 {
 	if (_open) return;
-	
+
+    // reset socket for the case that it has been previously closed
+    _socket = DatagramSocket();
+
 	if (_logHost.find(':') != std::string::npos)
 		_socketAddress = SocketAddress(_logHost);
 	else
@@ -105,6 +108,8 @@ void RemoteSyslogChannel::open()
 			_host = _socket.address().host().toString();
 		}
 	}
+    
+    _open = true;
 }