medium10 pts · first answer countsnetworkinglinux

Cannot assign requested address

A service that makes many short outbound HTTP calls starts failing with "connect: cannot assign requested address". ss shows about 28,000 sockets in TIME_WAIT to one upstream. What is the best fix?

A.Increase the upstream server timeoutB.Reuse connections with HTTP keep-alive and a connection pool instead of opening a new connection per requestC.Turn off TCP entirely and use UDPD.Restart the service every hour

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