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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:14:35 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>
Cc:        David.Johnston@vviuh221.vvi.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Thanks for the good book and newbie question ...
Message-ID:  <20000906011435.J72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.21.0009051337230.79478-100000@inca.gate.net>
References:  <10009051616.AA02890@vviuh221.vvi.com> <Pine.A41.4.21.0009051337230.79478-100000@inca.gate.net>

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William Melanson wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Johnston wrote:
> 
> % Hi Again FreeBSD:
> % 
> % > UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, second Edition.
> % 
> % I wrote my first client/server sub-system using the book's examples. It is so cool!
> % 
> % Now I need to ask the occasional question. Is there a better freebsd mail  
> % list for these type of questions? The one I have now is the following:
> % 
> % When I kill the server then immediately restart it then bind gives "bind  
> % error: Address already in use". But if I wait for about 1 minute then I can  
> % start the server up again. How do I make it such that bind will "figure it  
> % out" right away, or (put another way) why can't bind figure out that the  
> % address and port are no longer in use?
> 
> The command "ndc" may be of help to you. take a look at it's manpage.

Either you're confused, or I am. "ndc" is a program to control named,
but he's talking about the bind(2) system call, not the BIND DNS server.
Unless "ndc" is another program I don't know about.

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Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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