Subj : Re: recycling telnet serv
To   : Frank Reid
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 01:19 am

  Re: Re: recycling telnet serv
  By: Frank Reid to Angus McLeod on Sun Oct 09 2005 10:29:00

 >  > (Anybody know how to prevent this from happening, or how to release the
 >  > port immediately?)
 > 
 > There's that "BindRetryCount" under the [Global] settings in sbbs.ini that w
 > keep trying to bind to the port for that number of times.  (I believe there'
 > also a variable in the newer release that specifies the time between tries, 
 > the default is 15 seconds.)  I set the BindRetryCount to 10, and I've never 
 > it not rebind after about the 4th or 5th attempt.

OK, fair enough, but what I was asking is whether there is a way to tell 
the O/S to drop the socket *now* instead of waiting.


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