Subj : Re: recycling telnet serv
To   : Jon Desvin
From : Deuce
Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 10:25 pm

  Re: Re: recycling telnet serv
  By: Jon Desvin to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Oct 10 2005 07:49 pm

 > > 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.
 > 
 > Since you're using *nix I am assuming you have at least a little background
 > with C code -- before making a call to bind() run something like:
 > 
 > int val = 1 ;
 > 
 > setsockopt( listenSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (const void*) &val,
 > sizeof(int) ) ;
 > 
 > This will generally do what you are asking.

You can just add REUSEADDR to ctrl/sockopts.cfg

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