Subj : Re: recycling telnet serv
To   : Frank Reid
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 11 2005 04:26 pm

  Re: Re: recycling telnet serv
  By: Frank Reid to Deuce on Tue Oct 11 2005 04:32 am

 >   Re: Re: recycling telnet serv
 >   By: Deuce to Jon Desvin on Mon Oct 10 2005 23:25:00
 > 
 >  >  > > OK, fair enough, but what I was asking is whether there is a way to 
 >  >  > > the O/S to drop the socket *now* instead of waiting.
 >  >  >
 >  > You can just add REUSEADDR to ctrl/sockopts.cfg
 > 
 > Are there any negative ramifications of doing this?

If there's another application already listening on the same port(s), you won't
get a bind error. It just simply won't be able to accept incoming connections.

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