New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Slotmachine, to book and free server ports at scale

Show HN: Slotmachine, to book and free server ports at scale
2 by cyansmoker | 0 comments on Hacker News.
This is a very specialized Go library and, frankly, somewhat of a straw man: I've found myself needing to quickly assign ports on servers with a high density of highly ephemeral inbound/outbound connections where the protocol relies on a specific port number. Obviously, running sequentially through a list of ports until I find one I have not already allocated does not perform very well. I was surprised when I did not find anything already addressing this need. So, this is the straw man part: surely I missed it! Anyway, should you ever need something like that... here it is.

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