Github user tillrohrmann commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1145#issuecomment-142554024 I think that the Akka will just randomly pick a free port. Thus, there is no need for retrying. I'll add the comments to the test. That's a good point :-) Merging this then.
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