diff --git a/config/config.reuseaddr.c b/config/config.reuseaddr.c
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+
+#if defined(__MINGW__) || defined(__MINGW32__)
+#include <windows.h>
+#include <winsock2.h>
+#else
+#include <time.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/param.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#endif /* __MINGW__ */
+
+#include <sys/file.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#ifndef	INADDR_NONE
+#define	INADDR_NONE	-1
+#endif
+
+// Maximum data in single I/O operation
+#define	NETBUF_SIZE	4096
+
+main()
+{
+  struct sockaddr_in	sin;
+  int	size = sizeof(sin);
+  int	status = 1;
+  int	port;
+  int	net;
+
+  memset(&sin, '\0', sizeof(sin));
+  sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
+  sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
+  sin.sin_port = 0;
+
+ if ((net = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC)) < 0)
+    {
+      fprintf(stderr, "unable to create socket 1\n");
+      return 2;
+    }
+
+  setsockopt(net, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (char *)&status, sizeof(status));
+
+  if (bind(net, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, sizeof(sin)) < 0)
+    {
+      fprintf(stderr, "unable to bind socket 1\n");
+      (void) close(net);
+      return 2;
+    }
+
+  listen(net, 5);
+
+  if (getsockname(net, (struct sockaddr*)&sin, &size) < 0)
+    {
+      fprintf(stderr, "unable to get socket 1 name\n");
+      (void) close(net);
+      return 2;
+    }
+
+  port = sin.sin_port;
+  memset(&sin, '\0', sizeof(sin));
+  sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
+  sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
+  sin.sin_port = port;
+
+  if ((net = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC)) < 0)
+    {
+      fprintf(stderr, "unable to create socket 2\n");
+      return 2;
+    }
+
+  setsockopt(net, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (char *)&status, sizeof(status));
+
+  /*
+   * Now ... this bind should fail unless SO_REUSEADDR is broken.
+   */
+  if (bind(net, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, sizeof(sin)) < 0)
+    {
+      return 0;
+    }
+  return 1;
+}
+