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in thread Socket Differences between Win32/Darwin and *nix.

Excellent articles on this delay after closing a socket on a bound port are linked from here.

OP: Read the FAQ articles (some are linked in the follow-ups) and if you decide that you want to bind on the port again immediately, use setsockopt and monkey with the SO_REUSEADDR option.

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(tye)Re: Socket Differences between Win32/Darwin and *nix.
by tye (Sage) on Jan 10, 2002 at 20:34 UTC

    Or simply add Reuse=>1 to your IO::Socket::INET->new call.

    Update: ...which was already in the original code. Which makes me wonder how this particular error could happen...

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