Re: tcp strangness
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:51:16 +0100 (BST)
> > > 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