Bind failed: Address already in use

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Everyone is correct. However, if you’re also busy testing your code your own application might still “own” the socket if it starts and stops relatively quickly. Try SO_REUSEADDR as a socket option:

What exactly does SO_REUSEADDR do?

This socket option tells the kernel that even if this port is busy (in
the TIME_WAIT state), go ahead and reuse it anyway. If it is busy,
but with another state, you will still get an address already in use
error. It is useful if your server has been shut down, and then
restarted right away while sockets are still active on its port. You
should be aware that if any unexpected data comes in, it may confuse
your server, but while this is possible, it is not likely.

It has been pointed out that “A socket is a 5 tuple (proto, local
addr, local port, remote addr, remote port). SO_REUSEADDR just says
that you can reuse local addresses. The 5 tuple still must be
unique!” by Michael Hunter ([email protected]). This is true, and this
is why it is very unlikely that unexpected data will ever be seen by
your server. The danger is that such a 5 tuple is still floating
around on the net, and while it is bouncing around, a new connection
from the same client, on the same system, happens to get the same
remote port. This is explained by Richard Stevens in “2.7 Please
explain the TIME_WAIT state.”.

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