DiscoverThe Backend Engineering Show with Hussein NasserRunning out of TCP ephemeral source ports
Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

Update: 2024-08-25
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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. 




0:00 Intro


0:30 System architecture 


2:20 The behavior of the bug


4:00 Backend Troubleshooting


7:00 The cause


15:30 Ephemeral ports on loopback



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Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

Hussein Nasser