[oclug] Unbind a socket

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Paul Faure wrote:

> Thanks for the info, the SO_REUSEADDR option must be set before the
> bind is done not after... Since it warns about reliability, I don't think
> I will use this option in production, just for production and testing...

SO_REUSADDR is quite safe and practically all TCP servers (apache, sendmail,
etc.) use it.  If you do *not* use it on a production server, you'll have
problems if the server dies and you need to restart it.

--
David.