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echo: synchronet
to: DEON
from: NELGIN
date: 2020-12-16 09:57:00
subject: Re: Error with Telnet Ser

deon wrote:
>   Re: Re: Error with Telnet Server
>   By: Nelgin to Digital Man on Tue Dec 15 2020 10:26 pm
> 
> Howdy,
> 
>  >> Looks like the usual *nix TCP socket rebind issues:
http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#bind
>  Ne> Yeah, was reading this and thought immediately that REUSEADDR=1 needs to
be in sockopts.ini
> 
> Should REUSEADDR be defaulted for new installs? I'm curious why it isnt (and
I see many fall for this and ask about it, as I did when I first started with
SBBS)...

I asked DM the same question, he said it's not default to stop the unwary
sysop from nuking their ssh and http configs. Make sense.

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