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Why not let the OS pick a random port? #20

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aymanosman opened this issue May 3, 2022 · 0 comments

aymanosman commented May 3, 2022

The way a random port is chosen means there are sometimes conflicts when the address is already in use.

aws_ex_ray/lib/aws_ex_ray/client/udp_client.ex

Line 96 in ab6e07f

:rand.uniform(65_535 - 1023) + 1023

Why not let the operating system do it?

> {:ok, port} = :gen_udp.open(0, [:binary])
{:ok, #Port<0.21>}
> :inet.port(port)
{:ok, 61367}

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