Question

In my C++ application, I am using ::bind() for a UDP socket, but on rare occasions, after reconnection due to lost connection, I get errno EADDRINUSE, even after many retries. The other side of the UDP connection which will receive the data reconnected fine and is waiting for select() to indicate there is something to read.

I presume this means the local port is in use. If true, how might I be leaking the local port such that the other side connects to it fine? The real issue here is that other side connected fine and is waiting but this side is stuck on EADDRINUSE.

–Edit–

Here is a code snippet showing that I am already doing SO_REUSEADDR on my TCP socket, not on this UDP socket for which I am having issue:

// According to "Linux Socket Programming by Example" p. 319, we must call
// setsockopt w/ SO_REUSEADDR option BEFORE calling bind.
// Make the address is reuseable so we don't get the nasty message.
int so_reuseaddr = 1; // Enabled.
int reuseAddrResult
  = ::setsockopt(getTCPSocket(), SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &so_reuseaddr,
                 sizeof(so_reuseaddr));

Here is my code to close the UDP socket when done:

void
disconnectUDP()
{
  if (::shutdown(getUDPSocket(), 2) < 0) {
    clog << "Warning: error during shutdown of data socket("
         << getUDPSocket() << "): " << strerror(errno) << '\n';
  }
  if (::close(getUDPSocket()) < 0 && !seenWarn) {
    clog << "Warning: error while closing data socket("
         << getUDPSocket() << "): " << strerror(errno) << '\n';

  }
}

Answer 1

In UDP there’s no such thing as lost connection, because there’s no connection. You can lose sent packets, that’s all.

Don’t reconnect, simply reuse the existing fd.