Ok I have the solution now. I added sync=false to the uri
<camel:to uri="mina:udp://localhost:514?sync=false"/> It was using request / reply model and waiting for a response. Thanks for all the help. Mike -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Sending-to-Syslog-tp5760517p5760780.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.