diff --git a/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mcast/mcast.c b/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mcast/mcast.c
index 915c831df4..f15ff6efc5 100644
--- a/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mcast/mcast.c
+++ b/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mcast/mcast.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ int mcast_socket_create(const char *host, int16_t port, mcast_handle_t *handle,
 		family = AF_INET6;
 	}
 	
-	if ((!(flags & MCAST_SEND) && !(flags & MCAST_RECV)) || (handle->sock = (mcast_socket_t)socket(family, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) != mcast_sock_invalid ) {
+	if ((!(flags & MCAST_SEND) && !(flags & MCAST_RECV)) || (handle->sock = (mcast_socket_t)socket(family, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == mcast_sock_invalid ) {
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ void mcast_socket_close(mcast_handle_t *handle)
 
 ssize_t mcast_socket_send(mcast_handle_t *handle, void *data, size_t datalen)
 {
-	if (handle->sock != mcast_sock_invalid) {
+	if (handle->sock == mcast_sock_invalid) {
+		errno = EINVAL;
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ ssize_t mcast_socket_send(mcast_handle_t *handle, void *data, size_t datalen)
 	if (handle->family == AF_INET6) {
 		return sendto(handle->sock, data, (int)datalen, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &handle->send_addr6, sizeof(handle->send_addr6));
 	} else {
+		//printf("WTF %d %p %ld %s\n", handle->sock, (void *)data, datalen, inet_ntoa(handle->send_addr.sin_addr));
 		return sendto(handle->sock, data, (int)datalen, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &handle->send_addr, sizeof(handle->send_addr));
 	}
 }
@@ -210,6 +212,11 @@ ssize_t mcast_socket_recv(mcast_handle_t *handle, void *data, size_t datalen, in
 {
 	socklen_t addrlen = sizeof(handle->recv_addr);
 
+	if (handle->sock == mcast_sock_invalid) {
+		errno = EINVAL;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	if (data == NULL || datalen == 0) {
 		data = handle->buffer;
 		datalen = sizeof(handle->buffer);
diff --git a/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mod_verto.c b/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mod_verto.c
index ba1e78752f..24dc581e47 100644
--- a/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mod_verto.c
+++ b/src/mod/endpoints/mod_verto/mod_verto.c
@@ -3798,14 +3798,16 @@ static switch_bool_t verto__broadcast_func(const char *method, cJSON *params, js
 	if (jsock->profile->mcast_pub.sock != ws_sock_invalid) {
 		if ((json_text = cJSON_PrintUnformatted(params))) {
 
-			if ( mcast_socket_send(&jsock->profile->mcast_pub, json_text, strlen(json_text) + 1) < 0 ) {
-				switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_ERROR, "multicast socket send error!\n");
+			if (mcast_socket_send(&jsock->profile->mcast_pub, json_text, strlen(json_text) + 1) <= 0) {
+				switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_ERROR, "multicast socket send error! %s\n", strerror(errno));
+				r = SWITCH_FALSE;
+				cJSON_AddItemToObject(*response, "message", cJSON_CreateString("MCAST Data Send failure!"));
+			} else {
+				r = SWITCH_TRUE;
+				cJSON_AddItemToObject(*response, "message", cJSON_CreateString("MCAST Data Sent"));
 			}
-
 			free(json_text);
 			json_text = NULL;
-			r = SWITCH_TRUE;
-			cJSON_AddItemToObject(*response, "message", cJSON_CreateString("MCAST Data Sent"));
 		} else {
 			switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_ERROR, "JSON ERROR!\n");
 		}
@@ -4481,6 +4483,10 @@ static switch_status_t parse_config(const char *cf)
 
 			profile->local_network = "localnet.auto";
 
+			profile->mcast_sub.sock = ws_sock_invalid;
+			profile->mcast_pub.sock = ws_sock_invalid;
+
+
 			for (param = switch_xml_child(xprofile, "param"); param; param = param->next) {
 				char *var = NULL;
 				char *val = NULL;