title: Rabbitmq consumer shutting down repeatedly
body: <p>I have configured a Dead Letter exchange with exponential back off policy. After making these changes, I have started getting an exception in the rabbitmq consumer getting shutdown repeatedly throwing the following exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Received shutdown signal for consumer tag=amq.ctag--Qn9jFNOd3vxhaHvEw8Nrw
  com.rabbitmq.client.ShutdownSignalException: connection error
  at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.startShutdown(AMQConnection.java:715)
  at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.shutdown(AMQConnection.java:705)
  at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection$MainLoop.run(AMQConnection.java:563)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  Caused by: java.io.EOFException
  at java.io.DataInputStream.readUnsignedByte(DataInputStream.java:290)
  at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.Frame.readFrom(Frame.java:95)
  at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.SocketFrameHandler.readFrame(SocketFrameHandler.java:139)
  at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection$MainLoop.run(AMQConnection.java:532)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone please give me some pointers regarding possible causes for this exception?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>
  
  <p>Shuchi</p>