Chris Mellon wrote: >> My problem (and the reason I set reuse to True) is this: if I have >> connections active when I restart my service, upon restart, the socket >> will >> fail to bind because there is still a connection in a WAIT state. > > This is just the way sockets work on your platform. How exactly > sockets shut down, and the exact effect that SO_REUSEADDR varies from > platform to platform. In your case, using it is probably reasonable.
Thank you. Glad to know I've chosen the best solution for my situation. j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list