diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index 4fac2722..342025ac 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import (
 	"net/netip"
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
-	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/anacrolix/chansync"
@@ -646,7 +645,7 @@ func DialFirst(ctx context.Context, addr string, dialers []Dialer) (res DialResu
 			res = <-resCh
 		}
 	}()
-	// There are still incompleted dials.
+	// There are still uncompleted dials.
 	go func() {
 		for ; left > 0; left-- {
 			conn := (<-resCh).Conn
@@ -663,8 +662,12 @@ func DialFirst(ctx context.Context, addr string, dialers []Dialer) (res DialResu
 
 func dialFromSocket(ctx context.Context, s Dialer, addr string) net.Conn {
 	c, err := s.Dial(ctx, addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Levelf(log.Debug, "error dialing %q: %v", addr, err)
+	}
 	// This is a bit optimistic, but it looks non-trivial to thread this through the proxy code. Set
-	// it now in case we close the connection forthwith.
+	// it now in case we close the connection forthwith. Note this is also done in the TCP dialer
+	// code to increase the chance it's done.
 	if tc, ok := c.(*net.TCPConn); ok {
 		tc.SetLinger(0)
 	}
@@ -672,10 +675,6 @@ func dialFromSocket(ctx context.Context, s Dialer, addr string) net.Conn {
 	return c
 }
 
-func forgettableDialError(err error) bool {
-	return strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no suitable address found")
-}
-
 func (cl *Client) noLongerHalfOpen(t *Torrent, addr string) {
 	if _, ok := t.halfOpen[addr]; !ok {
 		panic("invariant broken")
diff --git a/client_test.go b/client_test.go
index 03851ae8..c8624395 100644
--- a/client_test.go
+++ b/client_test.go
@@ -254,6 +254,50 @@ func TestResponsive(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.EqualValues(t, "d\n", string(b))
 }
 
+// TestResponsive was the first test to fail if uTP is disabled and TCP sockets dial from the
+// listening port.
+func TestResponsiveTcpOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	seederDataDir, mi := testutil.GreetingTestTorrent()
+	defer os.RemoveAll(seederDataDir)
+	cfg := TestingConfig(t)
+	cfg.DisableUTP = true
+	cfg.Seed = true
+	cfg.DataDir = seederDataDir
+	seeder, err := NewClient(cfg)
+	require.Nil(t, err)
+	defer seeder.Close()
+	seederTorrent, _, _ := seeder.AddTorrentSpec(TorrentSpecFromMetaInfo(mi))
+	seederTorrent.VerifyData()
+	leecherDataDir := t.TempDir()
+	cfg = TestingConfig(t)
+	cfg.DataDir = leecherDataDir
+	leecher, err := NewClient(cfg)
+	require.Nil(t, err)
+	defer leecher.Close()
+	leecherTorrent, _, _ := leecher.AddTorrentSpec(func() (ret *TorrentSpec) {
+		ret = TorrentSpecFromMetaInfo(mi)
+		ret.ChunkSize = 2
+		return
+	}())
+	leecherTorrent.AddClientPeer(seeder)
+	reader := leecherTorrent.NewReader()
+	defer reader.Close()
+	reader.SetReadahead(0)
+	reader.SetResponsive()
+	b := make([]byte, 2)
+	_, err = reader.Seek(3, io.SeekStart)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	_, err = io.ReadFull(reader, b)
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.EqualValues(t, "lo", string(b))
+	_, err = reader.Seek(11, io.SeekStart)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	n, err := io.ReadFull(reader, b)
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.EqualValues(t, 2, n)
+	assert.EqualValues(t, "d\n", string(b))
+}
+
 func TestTorrentDroppedDuringResponsiveRead(t *testing.T) {
 	seederDataDir, mi := testutil.GreetingTestTorrent()
 	defer os.RemoveAll(seederDataDir)
@@ -749,6 +793,7 @@ func TestClientAddressInUse(t *testing.T) {
 		defer s.Close()
 	}
 	cfg := TestingConfig(t).SetListenAddr(":50007")
+	cfg.DisableUTP = false
 	cl, err := NewClient(cfg)
 	require.Error(t, err)
 	require.Nil(t, cl)
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 9ea01b96..d7bcf96f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc v1.8.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.8.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.8.0
-	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20220613132600-b0d781184e0d
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.5.0
 	golang.org/x/time v0.0.0-20220609170525-579cf78fd858
 )
 
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.5.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.7.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20220722155255-886fb9371eb4 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.5.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/text v0.7.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20220609144429-65e65417b02f // indirect
 	google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20211118181313-81c1377c94b1 // indirect
diff --git a/socket.go b/socket.go
index 127cd29a..22809e17 100644
--- a/socket.go
+++ b/socket.go
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"net"
 	"strconv"
+	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/anacrolix/log"
 	"github.com/anacrolix/missinggo/perf"
 	"github.com/anacrolix/missinggo/v2"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
-
-	"github.com/anacrolix/torrent/dialer"
 )
 
 type Listener interface {
@@ -38,13 +37,54 @@ func listen(n network, addr string, f firewallCallback, logger log.Logger) (sock
 	}
 }
 
+var tcpListenConfig = net.ListenConfig{
+	Control: func(network, address string, c syscall.RawConn) (err error) {
+		controlErr := c.Control(func(fd uintptr) {
+			err = setReusePortSockOpts(fd)
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+		err = controlErr
+		return
+	},
+	// BitTorrent connections manage their own keep-alives.
+	KeepAlive: -1,
+}
+
 func listenTcp(network, address string) (s socket, err error) {
-	l, err := net.Listen(network, address)
+	l, err := tcpListenConfig.Listen(context.Background(), network, address)
 	return tcpSocket{
 		Listener: l,
 		NetworkDialer: NetworkDialer{
 			Network: network,
-			Dialer:  dialer.Default,
+			Dialer: &net.Dialer{
+				// My hope is that dialling out from a consistent port will improve the
+				// hole-punching behaviour. It might also prevent duplicate connections to the same
+				// peer if the peer does the same thing. There should probably be a fallback dialer
+				// if we fail to configure the socket to reuse ports for whatever reason.
+				LocalAddr: l.Addr(),
+				// We don't want fallback, as we explicitly manage the IPv4/IPv6 distinction
+				// ourselves, although it's probably not triggered as I think the network is already
+				// constrained to tcp4 or tcp6 at this point.
+				FallbackDelay: -1,
+				// BitTorrent connections manage their own keep-alives.
+				KeepAlive: tcpListenConfig.KeepAlive,
+				Control: func(network, address string, c syscall.RawConn) (err error) {
+					controlErr := c.Control(func(fd uintptr) {
+						err = setSockNoLinger(fd)
+						if err != nil {
+							// Failing to disable linger is undesirable, but not fatal.
+							log.Printf("error setting linger socket option on tcp socket: %v", err)
+						}
+						err = setReusePortSockOpts(fd)
+					})
+					if err == nil {
+						err = controlErr
+					}
+					return
+				},
+			},
 		},
 	}, err
 }
diff --git a/sockopts.go b/sockopts.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54f307d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sockopts.go
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+//go:build !wasm
+
+package torrent
+
+import "syscall"
+
+var lingerOffVal = syscall.Linger{
+	Onoff:  0,
+	Linger: 0,
+}
diff --git a/sockopts_unix.go b/sockopts_unix.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..52ec9e8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sockopts_unix.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+//go:build !windows && !wasm
+
+package torrent
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+func setReusePortSockOpts(fd uintptr) (err error) {
+	// I would use libp2p/go-reuseport to do this here, but no surprise it's
+	// implemented incorrectly.
+
+	// Looks like we can get away with just REUSEPORT at least on Darwin, and probably by
+	// extension BSDs and Linux.
+	if false {
+		err = syscall.SetsockoptInt(int(fd), syscall.SOL_SOCKET, syscall.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+		if err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+	}
+	err = syscall.SetsockoptInt(int(fd), syscall.SOL_SOCKET, unix.SO_REUSEPORT, 1)
+	return
+}
+
+func setSockNoLinger(fd uintptr) (err error) {
+	return syscall.SetsockoptLinger(int(fd), syscall.SOL_SOCKET, syscall.SO_LINGER, &lingerOffVal)
+}
diff --git a/sockopts_wasm.go b/sockopts_wasm.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9705b914
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sockopts_wasm.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package torrent
+
+// It's possible that we either need to use JS-specific way to allow port reuse, or to fall back to
+// dialling TCP without forcing the local address to match the listener. If the fallback is
+// implemented, then this should probably return an error to trigger it.
+func setReusePortSockOpts(fd uintptr) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func setSockNoLinger(fd uintptr) error {
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/sockopts_windows.go b/sockopts_windows.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c3c0ab04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sockopts_windows.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package torrent
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/windows"
+)
+
+func setReusePortSockOpts(fd uintptr) (err error) {
+	return windows.SetsockoptInt(windows.Handle(fd), windows.SOL_SOCKET, windows.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+}
+
+func setSockNoLinger(fd uintptr) (err error) {
+	return syscall.SetsockoptLinger(syscall.Handle(fd), syscall.SOL_SOCKET, syscall.SO_LINGER, &lingerOffVal)
+}