Hey guys,
Maybe I’m revealing my ignorance again, in these threads about networking, but I encountered this:
I have this ServerSocket, bound to port N.
I call setReuseAddress(false);
I close() it and isClosed() returns true.
I try creating a new ServerSocket binding it to port N.
java.net.BindException: Address already in use
After a while, creating the new ServerSocket succeeds.
OS: CentOS (RedHat thingy)
Working around this with this method…
private static ServerSocket createServerSocket(int port, int backlog, InetAddress bind) throws IOException
{
int maxTries = 10;
long interval = 250;
for(int i=1; i<=maxTries; i++)
{
try
{
return new ServerSocket(port, backlog, bind);
}
catch(IOException exc)
{
if(i==maxTries)
throw exc;
}
try
{
Thread.sleep(interval);
}
catch(InterruptedException exc)
{
// ignore
}
}
// impossible to get here
return null;
}