Re: bind socket problem

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@free.fr>]

OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du mardi 01 janvier 2002, vers 17:54,
George Rousson <george@interoute.net> disait:

> i just noticed that my openbsd box is giving me the following error:

> smtp/tcp bind error : adddress already in use ?


> What does this means ?
> it this a problem of me running named on my server or anything else
> different ?

This means that another program is already using the same port. Check
with netstat -lt. You'll have to kill the offending program before
being able to reuse this port. However, ever when there is no program
listening to this port, the port may stay in "TIME_WAIT" during 2
MSS. You will have to wait. Most daemons don't have this behaviour.
-- 
panic("bad_user_access_length executed (not cool, dude)");
        2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/kernel/panic.c