Exactly, you can only really exhaust the ports from the server address/port to your single host, which is effectively only DoSing your own access to the server.

Exactly, you can only really exhaust the ports from the server address/port to your single host, which is effectively only DoSing your own access to the server. Ive seen over a million sockets in time_wait and it did not effect the servers. However if doing something like behind a single software load balancer then the number of ports available will be limited to the 65k connections since the source address/port and target address(the lb) are fixed.