I have read other threads regarding sockets in TIME_WAIT, but I am clearly still missing something.
Below is a few lines from a "netstat -an". How could it get into this situation? If I understood the descriptions I found, we should not have more than one instance of the socket 63444 ... but after the one listed as "LISTEN" there are about 50 individual socket connections with one end at 63444, all in "TIME_WAIT". How could this happen, and how can I fix it?
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:63444 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 169.254.7.228:63444 169.254.66.84:35391 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 169.254.7.228:63444 169.254.66.84:35283 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 169.254.7.228:63444 169.254.66.84:35352 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 169.254.7.228:63444 169.254.66.84:35431 TIME_WAIT