On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 5:44 PM Markus Elfring <markus.elfr...@web.de> wrote: > > > You'll get anything in the ephemeral ports range. > > From which documentation source did you get this information for > the handling of a zero as an useful setting?
If you don't bind to a port, you get an arbitrary port in the ephemeral port range. That's just how BSD sockets work. Source: a couple of decades of programming experience. > > But the other cause is that you recently shut the server down, > > and the port is still in the TIME_WAIT state. > > Does this technical detail occasionally increase the need to choose > an additional number for a quickly restarted service in a dynamic way? > > > You can avoid this with the SO_REUSEADDR flag. > > Can such a configuration parameter be used also together with > programming interfaces from the module “socketserver”? How about you do some research with the socket module and see if you can find answers in the docs. I have faith in you :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
