Windows not releasing ports on server crash

[Nomarky]

Hi

I've got a problem with one of my game servers crashing: when it does it sometimes fails to release the port it was using. Does anyone know a way to force a port to close, without restarting the host PC? I don't like restarting unless I have to, as it obviously effevts the other servers running on there.

Running Server 2003

Cheers!

[steventrouble]

I suppose you could make a bat file with

start /wait "srcds -console -game blah +map blah"

then at the end run a program to release the ports