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I would do a tcpdump around these cases to see more information; in addition, contact the remote admins and ask them what the state of your attempts show


curl -3 -v --cacert...

That is not "the" zombie. Note the pid change.

Why?

zombies arise from really poor programming practices - failing to call wait() on children. kill DOES NOT KILL A ZOMBIE!! Stop trying.
Are...

Having a zombie or two lying around isn't a big deal. The only thing that still exists for a zombie is a process table entry (which includes its process ID and its exit status). Its address space...

Some searching (https://www.google.com/search?q=ia64_corehw+zombie) seems to indicate that it's normal (or at least a known issue which doesn't cause a problem).

No. It was very helpful.
It shows that your zombie's PID is 19693. It will remain a zombie until its parent wait()s for it or dies. Its parent's PID is 2564.
ps -ef|grep [2]564
will show you ps...

There are two process lines in that response - one is your grep, the other is the zombie process.