Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> socat also appears to have this misbehavior, though it can be avoided by
> supplying the reuseaddr option to the listening socket.  Looking at the
> socat source, it appears that this is related to the SO_REUSEADDR option.

That sounds right.. I remember it was SO_SOMETHING. :-)

BTW:

./simpleproxy.c:        if (setsockopt(SockFD, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (void*)

> It's not clear to me if this should be implemented automatically for
> every listening connection for redir, or if it warrants an additional
> command-line option.  I'm inclined to avoid additional command line
> options (the UI is already too clumsy and ill-structured).  Can you
> think of a scenario where it would be a bad thing to have either of
> these socket options set?

Been a while sice I last dealt with this issue, but I can't think of any
reason not to, and another proxy does, so..

-- 
see shy jo



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