The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Hussein Nasser
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Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports
20 minutes Posted Aug 25, 2024 at 6:45 pm.
Intro
System architecture
The behavior of the bug
Backend Troubleshooting
The cause
Ephemeral ports on loopback
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In this episode of the backend engineering show I describe an interesting bug I ran into where the web server ran out of ephemeral ports causing the system to halt. 
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