Re: Restart after reconfig
  By: Alterego to Digital Man on Tue Jul 30 2019 11:00 am

 > Hey DM,
 >
 > I've noticed that if I reconfigure the BBS while somebody is online
 > (normally me), it triggers a reload (great), however, some services dont
 > restart properly.
 >
 > The most impactful one is telnet - the console shows this:
 >
 > 7/30 10:46:03 term 0025 !ERROR 98 binding Telnet Server socket to port 23
 >
 > And it tries 2 times within a few seconds and fails.
 >
 > The other one that I notice often doesnt restart is the port connection to
 > 10088.
 >
 > I've found that I have to completly stop SBBS and restart it, or wait a
 > period of time and touch sbbs.ini again.
 >
 > My suspicion is that there is another issue resulting in this - which is
 > binding to a port that is CLOSE_WAIT.
 >
 > So going into the SBBS configurator while online is a no go, because I loose
 > my ability to get back on.
 >
 > Is there a workaround/fix for this?

Yes:
http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#bind

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