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by cnlwsu 5543 days ago
Exactly, you can only really exhaust the ports from the server address/port to your single host, which is effectively only DoSing your own access to the server. Ive seen over a million sockets in time_wait and it did not effect the servers.

However if doing something like behind a single software load balancer then the number of ports available will be limited to the 65k connections since the source address/port and target address(the lb) are fixed.