audispd stopping on distribute-network = yes

Situation: Have 3 VMs all running RHEL7.6 (3.10.0-933.el7.x86_64) with audit components 2.8.4, including audisp-plugins. Using the audisp-remote plugin, Machine A -> B Machine B -> C Problem 1: If I enable "distribute_network = yes" on Machine B, audispd (and children) stops. No anom_abend, no message in syslog, no audit event I can identify as a clue. Problem 2: If I disable the distribute_network, the audispd and audisp-remote work fine. If I reboot Machine B, Machine A now doesn't auto-reconnect. I thought we had addressed these reconnect issues a ways back? Thanks in advance for any advice, LCB -- Lenny Bruzenak MagitekLTD