In message <pan.2010.09.19.17.19.19.687...@nowhere.com>, Nobody wrote:
> However, some clients choose their own source ports. E.g. rlogin/rsh use > privileged (low-numbered) ports, and you can't get the kernel to choose a > random privileged port for you. But nobody uses rlogin/rsh any more, and who would attach any trustworthy meaning to a connection coming from a remote low-numbered source port? > If you're writing a server which listens on a known port, you *should* be > using SO_REUSEADDR to avoid unnecessary delays in start-up. The kernel > will automatically reject packets relating to stale connections, and your > server should be accepting any new connections ASAP. That makes it sound like SO_REUSEADDR should really be a superfluous option. But it’s not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
