I previously sent this patch to the libtirpc-devel list but got no response. Resending with wider distribution... If we don't set SO_REUSEADDR, then if there are any sockets on this port in TIME_WAIT state when rpcbind is restarted then that will prevent the bind() call from succeeding. Details of the problem are here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597356 Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/rpcbind.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/rpcbind.c b/src/rpcbind.c index ddf2cfc..c8f0d9f 100644 --- a/src/rpcbind.c +++ b/src/rpcbind.c @@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ init_transport(struct netconfig *nconf) int addrlen = 0; int nhostsbak; int checkbind; + int on = 1; struct sockaddr *sa = NULL; u_int32_t host_addr[4]; /* IPv4 or IPv6 */ struct sockaddr_un sun; @@ -493,6 +494,14 @@ init_transport(struct netconfig *nconf) } oldmask = umask(S_IXUSR|S_IXGRP|S_IXOTH); __rpc_fd2sockinfo(fd, &si); + if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &on, + sizeof(on)) != 0) { + syslog(LOG_ERR, "cannot set SO_REUSEADDR on %s", + nconf->nc_netid); + if (res != NULL) + freeaddrinfo(res); + return 1; + } if (bind(fd, sa, addrlen) < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR, "cannot bind %s: %m", nconf->nc_netid); if (res != NULL) -- 1.6.6.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html