sockets - opening and closing

[Shao Sean]

i've noticed that when creating a TCP socket that opening and closing it a
few times in a row causes it not to work anymore..

open
close
open <-- stops here most of the time

if you wait a little between the first close and the second open, it will
sometimes re-connect.. anyone else notice this, or am i the only one
hammering? ;-)  [this "feature" was noticed in my code as well as the
'simple server/client' available for download on the runrev website]

running - windows 2000 sp2
another user has seen the same problem on macos9