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Q&A Does Socket.AcceptAsync throw SocketException for any transient reason?

I'm writing exception handling around a call to Socket.AcceptAsync in a loop. One of the exceptions it's documented to throw is SocketException, but the documentation is vague: An error occurred...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Kevin Krumwiede‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Alexei‭

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Does Socket.AcceptAsync throw SocketException for any transient reason?
I'm writing exception handling around a call to [`Socket.AcceptAsync`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.sockets.socket.acceptasync?view=net-8.0#system-net-sockets-socket-acceptasync(system-threading-cancellationtoken)) in a loop. One of the exceptions it's documented to throw is `SocketException`, but the documentation is vague:

>An error occurred when attempting to access the socket.

I want to know if `AcceptAsync` throws `SocketException` for any transient reason. In particular, is there anything the remote client could do to cause it to throw? If I don't account for this, my program could be subject to denial of service attacks.