Re: tcp strangness
Herbert Rosmanith (herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:50:03 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> > > > in this status, I tried to start a new httpd, but the daemon would
> > > > fail with an error message: "couldn not bind to port" (cern-httpd).
> > > >
> > > > I had to reboot the machine in order to start httpd again.
>
> Its supposed to wait until all connections have cleared (can be 2 hours),
> ask the cern folks why they don't set SO_REUSEADDR, or better still use
> a decent httpd
>
cern-httpd does use SO_REUSEADDR.
$ pwd
/usr/www/WWW/Daemon/Implementation
$ grep SO_REU *
grep: vms: Is a directory
HTDaemon.c: if ((setsockopt(master_soc,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,
I remember that I never before had problems with just killing and
restarting httpd. Seems to be introduced somewhere between 2.0.16?18? - 2.0.20
/herp