I know this is not of much help, but I have had situations where a badly terminating process would prevent subsequent processes from using that port. on windows, i never found a solution other than to reboot. on solaris 7, i never found a solution other than to wait 8 minutes. I did some reading and found socket inet options to change how such programs bound thge port so as to allow others to use it in more friendly a fashion but such a change wasnt possible with the process in question.
-- gedanken
