Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > Found a NetBSD 7.1 system to test on... > > After killing a server with an active connection, a new server can > bind to the same socket regardless of the SO_REUSEADDR setting in > either server. I don't know if that's some sort of system > configuration setting or what...
The question is, why shouldn't you be able to bind to an unbound socket that has stale connections in TIME-WAIT? Maybe the NetBSD people found the answer: there's no reason. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
