static int server_socket(int port, enum network_transport transport,
                         FILE *portnumber_file) {
    int sfd;
    struct linger ling = {0, 0};
    struct addrinfo *ai;
    struct addrinfo *next;
    struct addrinfo hints = { .ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE,
                              .ai_family = AF_UNSPEC };
    char port_buf[NI_MAXSERV];
    int error;
    int success = 0;
    int flags =1;

    hints.ai_socktype = IS_UDP(transport) ? SOCK_DGRAM : SOCK_STREAM;

    if (port == -1) {
        port = 0;
    }
    snprintf(port_buf, sizeof(port_buf), "%d", port);
    error= getaddrinfo(settings.inter, port_buf, &hints, &ai);
    if (error != 0) {
        if (error != EAI_SYSTEM)
          fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo(): %s\n", gai_strerror(error));
        else
          perror("getaddrinfo()");
        return 1;
    }

    for (next= ai; next; next= next->ai_next) {
        conn *listen_conn_add;
        if ((sfd = new_socket(next)) == -1) {
            /* getaddrinfo can return "junk" addresses,
             * we make sure at least one works before erroring.
             */
            continue;
        }

#ifdef IPV6_V6ONLY
        if (next->ai_family == AF_INET6) {
            error = setsockopt(sfd, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_V6ONLY, (char *) &flags, sizeof(flags));
            if (error != 0) {
                perror("setsockopt");
                close(sfd);
                continue;
            }
        }
#endif

        setsockopt(sfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (void *)&flags, sizeof(flags));
        if (IS_UDP(transport)) {
            maximize_sndbuf(sfd);
        } else {
            error = setsockopt(sfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, (void *)&flags, sizeof(flags));
            if (error != 0)
                perror("setsockopt");

            error = setsockopt(sfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, (void *)&ling, sizeof(ling));
            if (error != 0)
                perror("setsockopt");

            error = setsockopt(sfd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, (void *)&flags, sizeof(flags));
            if (error != 0)
                perror("setsockopt");
        }

        if (bind(sfd, next->ai_addr, next->ai_addrlen) == -1) {
            if (errno != EADDRINUSE) {
                perror("bind()");
                close(sfd);
                freeaddrinfo(ai);
                return 1;
            }
            close(sfd);
            continue;
        } else {
            success++;
            if (!IS_UDP(transport) && listen(sfd, settings.backlog) == -1) {
                perror("listen()");
                close(sfd);
                freeaddrinfo(ai);
                return 1;
            }
            if (portnumber_file != NULL &&
                (next->ai_addr->sa_family == AF_INET ||
                 next->ai_addr->sa_family == AF_INET6)) {
                union {
                    struct sockaddr_in in;
                    struct sockaddr_in6 in6;
                } my_sockaddr;
                socklen_t len = sizeof(my_sockaddr);
                if (getsockname(sfd, (struct sockaddr*)&my_sockaddr, &len)==0) {
                    if (next->ai_addr->sa_family == AF_INET) {
                        fprintf(portnumber_file, "%s INET: %u\n",
                                IS_UDP(transport) ? "UDP" : "TCP",
                                ntohs(my_sockaddr.in.sin_port));
                    } else {
                        fprintf(portnumber_file, "%s INET6: %u\n",
                                IS_UDP(transport) ? "UDP" : "TCP",
                                ntohs(my_sockaddr.in6.sin6_port));
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        if (IS_UDP(transport)) {
            int c;

            for (c = 0; c < settings.num_threads; c++) {
                /* this is guaranteed to hit all threads because we round-robin */
                dispatch_conn_new(sfd, conn_read, EV_READ | EV_PERSIST,
                                  UDP_READ_BUFFER_SIZE, transport);
            }
        } else {
            if (!(listen_conn_add = conn_new(sfd, conn_listening,
                                             EV_READ | EV_PERSIST, 1,
                                             transport, main_base))) {
                fprintf(stderr, "failed to create listening connection\n");
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }
            listen_conn_add->next = listen_conn;
            listen_conn = listen_conn_add;
        }
    }

    freeaddrinfo(ai);

    /* Return zero iff we detected no errors in starting up connections */
    return success == 0;
}