| I have written a server program that listens on port 3000. The program
| works very well except for one feature. I am asking if that is normal,
| or whether I forgot something.
|
| If I run the program it does fine. If I then kill the program (after it
| has accepted connections), and then run the program again, the bind
| function fails to work, and I get a message like "Could not bind" (see
| program below). If I wait a while, like a minute or two, then the
| program will work again. Is this normal behavior, or did I miss
| something?
[ snip ]
This is normal behavior. bind() will fail if there are still sockets in
the TIME_WAIT (and other) states.
To get around this, you want to use set the SO_REUSEPORT option using
setsockopt().
-Dan
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