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doc: port is optional for socket.bind()
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per: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#25356

originally submitted by @dcousens

Reviewed By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
PR-URL: #2378
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jasnell authored and rvagg committed Aug 26, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -158,15 +158,16 @@ a packet might travel, and that generally sending a datagram greater than
the (receiver) `MTU` won't work (the packet gets silently dropped, without
informing the source that the data did not reach its intended recipient).

### socket.bind(port[, address][, callback])
### socket.bind([port][, address][, callback])

* `port` Integer
* `port` Integer, Optional
* `address` String, Optional
* `callback` Function with no parameters, Optional. Callback when
binding is done.

For UDP sockets, listen for datagrams on a named `port` and optional
`address`. If `address` is not specified, the OS will try to listen on
`address`. If `port` is not specified, the OS will try to bind to a random
port. If `address` is not specified, the OS will try to listen on
all addresses. After binding is done, a "listening" event is emitted
and the `callback`(if specified) is called. Specifying both a
"listening" event listener and `callback` is not harmful but not very
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