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I have changed the health check script so it uses
	dig -b localhost @localhost
which makes it set SO_REUSEADDR, and this allows its connections to
succeed when they fail without the -b.

That sort-of confirms my belief that this is a bug.

There might be tuning I can do elsewhere to improve the situation...

Tony.
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