diff --git a/changelog.d/+eaddrinuse_not_error.fixed.md b/changelog.d/+eaddrinuse_not_error.fixed.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0618f22ab6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/+eaddrinuse_not_error.fixed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed reporting EADDRINUSE as an error
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/mirrord/layer/src/error.rs b/mirrord/layer/src/error.rs
index 79d96925a06..e52d6b99767 100644
--- a/mirrord/layer/src/error.rs
+++ b/mirrord/layer/src/error.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ mod ignore_codes {
     /// Error codes from [`libc`] that are **not** hard errors, meaning the operation may progress.
     ///
     /// Prefer using [`is_ignored_code`] instead of relying on this constant.
-    const IGNORE_ERROR_CODES: [i32; 2] = [libc::EINPROGRESS, libc::EAFNOSUPPORT];
+    const IGNORE_ERROR_CODES: [i32; 3] = [libc::EINPROGRESS, libc::EAFNOSUPPORT, libc::EADDRINUSE];
 
     /// Checks if an error code from some [`libc`] function should be treated as a hard error, or
     /// not.