On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > 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
>
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