On Wed, 2021-04-14 19:45:06 +0200, Jorge Redondo Flames wrote:
> Stunnel could listen on its local port *only* when the peer server is
> listening on its corresponding server socket. So if there is no serve on
> the other side, there should not be local listening socket. Does not that
> make sense?

Stunnel connects to the server only when a client connects to Stunnel.
If Stunnel is not listening for clients, it does not try to connect to
the server.  If it does not try to connect to the server, it does not
know if the server is listening.

Ludolf


> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 19:38, Ludolf Holzheid <lholzheid@bihl-wiedemann.de>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2021-04-14 19:13:03 +0200, Jorge Redondo Flames wrote:
> > > [..]
> > >
> > > Is there a way to configure Stunnel to *close* the local socket (not
> > > listening anymore) whenever the peer process (i.e. the server) has closed
> > > its socket?
> >
> > Stunnel listens for connection request from the client(s) and connects
> > to the server on behalf of the client(s).  How will a client ever be
> > able to connect through Stunnel again if Stunnel closes the listening
> > socket?
> >
> > Ludolf

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