Just found this thread that dealt with this problem.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=194795
My solution was to add a line to the hosts file.
echo "192.168.5.2 firs-g7g.amazon.com" > /etc/hosts
I guess I'll have to try chattr versus the above solution and see which uses the least amount of CPU - i.e. spamming log with "cannot delete" versus trying to connect to the server (and not getting a response).
I also found where in the java file this is done.