Problem with binding of socket addresses

[Gil Tene]

In article <epeterso.660257641 at houligan> epeterson at encore.com (Eric Peterson) wr
ites:
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>Now, neither the client nor the server is running at the time I try to
>restart the server, and there isn't a problem with address collisions
>with another process.  As far as I can tell, nothing else is using
>this address.  So why does bind() fail?

I have also seen this happen on several systems, anything with an
implemetation of sockets... I have no real solution, but it seems
that "waiting a little bit", like about 30 second to a minute
"fixes" this on most systems, and frees the bound address.

-- Gil.
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