Address already in use problem

[Sun Paul]

Hi

we have an SCTP application running in JAVA. and we found that there
is a problem when we as a client trying to connect to a remote IP
address.

If the remote IP address is not accessible, our application will keep
retrying to connect using a self-defined local port address, says
51001,

We found that after sometimes, says 2 hrs, this port 51001 is never
able to bind to us again. even we tried to restart the application.

Is there anyone know how we can resolve this?

-RBK