diff --git a/packages/cultnet-ts/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/cultnet-ts/CHANGELOG.md
index b87eebd3..eae823c4 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-ts/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/cultnet-ts/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ All notable changes to `cultnet-ts` are recorded here, following
 
 ### Added
 
-- `CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer`: one UDP socket serving many peers, each remote address and port with its own reliable session (`peerConnected`, `frame`, `peerDisconnected` events; `send(peer, ...)` answers on the peer a frame came from). A second client no longer replaces the first; idle peers are reaped after `peerTimeoutMs` (default 60 s) and Connects beyond `maxPeers` (default 256) are dropped. Matches the Rust `CultNetRudpServerHub` and C# `CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer`; the wire format is unchanged. `CultNetRudpSocketTransportConnection` in `server` mode still serves exactly one peer.
+- `CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer`: one UDP socket serving many peers, each remote address and port with its own reliable session (`peerConnected`, `frame`, `peerDisconnected` events; `send(peer, ...)` answers on the peer a frame came from). A second client no longer replaces the first; Connects beyond `maxPeers` (default 256) are dropped, and `close()` resolves once every peer's goodbye has left the socket. The shape follows the Rust `CultNetRudpServerHub` and C# `CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer`, and the wire format is unchanged. The optional `peerTimeoutMs` (idle peers ended and told so; default off) exists only in TypeScript. `CultNetRudpSocketTransportConnection` in `server` mode still serves exactly one peer.
 
 ### Breaking
 
diff --git a/packages/cultnet-ts/src/rudp-server.ts b/packages/cultnet-ts/src/rudp-server.ts
index e6e68464..37e8695a 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-ts/src/rudp-server.ts
+++ b/packages/cultnet-ts/src/rudp-server.ts
@@ -34,10 +34,12 @@ export interface CultNetRudpSocketServerOptions {
   /** A Connect from an endpoint beyond this many peers is dropped. Default 256. */
   maxPeers?: number;
   /**
-   * A peer that has sent nothing for this long is ended and told so. Default 60 000;
-   * `Infinity` keeps idle peers until they leave.
+   * A peer that has sent nothing for this long is ended and told so. TypeScript only: the
+   * Rust and C# servers never reap. Default `Infinity`, which keeps idle peers until they leave.
    */
   peerTimeoutMs?: number;
+  /** How long `close()` waits for the goodbyes to leave the socket. Default 1000. */
+  closeGraceMs?: number;
 }
 
 /** One remote endpoint's session. A peer that reconnects from the same endpoint is a new object. */
@@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ export class CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer extends EventEmitter {
   readonly #maxPeers: number;
   readonly #peerTimeoutMs: number;
   #closed = false;
+  #closing = false;
   readonly #stats: CultNetTransportStats = {
     bytesReceived: 0,
     bytesSent: 0,
@@ -104,7 +107,7 @@ export class CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer extends EventEmitter {
     this.#options = options;
     this.#socket = options.socket;
     this.#maxPeers = options.maxPeers ?? 256;
-    this.#peerTimeoutMs = options.peerTimeoutMs ?? 60_000;
+    this.#peerTimeoutMs = options.peerTimeoutMs ?? Infinity;
     if (!Number.isInteger(this.#maxPeers) || this.#maxPeers < 1) {
       throw new Error("RUDP server maxPeers must be a positive integer.");
     }
@@ -169,13 +172,23 @@ export class CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer extends EventEmitter {
     this.#endPeer(entry, entry.session.createDisconnect(Uint8Array.from(reason)));
   }
 
-  /** Ends every peer and releases the socket. */
-  close(): void {
+  /**
+   * Ends every peer and releases the socket once the goodbyes have left it (bounded by
+   * `closeGraceMs`, default 1000): closing the socket at once would drop them.
+   */
+  async close(): Promise<void> {
     if (this.#closed) return;
+    this.#closing = true;
     clearInterval(this.#timer);
-    for (const entry of [...this.#entries.values()]) {
-      this.#endPeer(entry, entry.session.createDisconnect(utf8("server closed")));
-    }
+    const sent = [...this.#entries.values()].map((entry) =>
+      this.#endPeer(entry, entry.session.createDisconnect(utf8("server closed"))));
+    let bound: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined;
+    await Promise.race([
+      Promise.all(sent),
+      new Promise<void>((resolve) => { bound = setTimeout(resolve, this.#options.closeGraceMs ?? 1_000); }),
+    ]);
+    clearTimeout(bound);
+    if (this.#closed) return;
     this.#closed = true;
     this.#socket.close();
   }
@@ -189,17 +202,24 @@ export class CultNetRudpSocketTransportServer extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   /** Removes the peer, tells the caller, and says goodbye on the wire. Idempotent per entry. */
-  #endPeer(entry: PeerEntry, goodbye: CultNetRudpPacket): void {
-    if (this.#entries.get(entry.key) !== entry) return;
+  #endPeer(entry: PeerEntry, goodbye: CultNetRudpPacket): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.#entries.get(entry.key) !== entry) return Promise.resolve();
     this.#entries.delete(entry.key);
     this.emit("peerDisconnected", { peer: entry.peer, reason: goodbye.payload });
     // Best-effort: the session is over whether or not the peer hears it.
     const wire = encodeRudpPacket(goodbye);
     this.#stats.bytesSent += wire.length;
-    sendRudpDatagram(this.#socket, wire, entry.peer.remotePort, entry.peer.remoteHost, () => {});
+    return new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      try {
+        this.#socket.send(wire, entry.peer.remotePort, entry.peer.remoteHost, () => resolve());
+      } catch {
+        resolve();
+      }
+    });
   }
 
   #receiveDatagram(wire: Buffer, remote: RemoteInfo): void {
+    if (this.#closing) return;
     this.#stats.bytesReceived += wire.length;
     // What a datagram carries is the sender's business: a malformed frame, another
     // session's connection id and a sender no Connect admitted are dropped and counted.
diff --git a/packages/cultnet-ts/test/rudp-server.test.ts b/packages/cultnet-ts/test/rudp-server.test.ts
index d35ca9f7..6ba976d3 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-ts/test/rudp-server.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cultnet-ts/test/rudp-server.test.ts
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ test("two clients on different ports talk through one server socket and neither
     assert.equal(a.closed() || b.closed(), false);
     assert.equal(server.peers.length, 2);
   } finally {
-    a.connection.close(); b.connection.close(); server.close();
+    a.connection.close(); b.connection.close(); await server.close();
   }
 });
 
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ test("a client reconnecting from the same endpoint replaces only its own session
     await waitFor(() => a.received.includes("re:after") && b.received.includes("re:still"), "replies after the reconnect");
     assert.equal(b.closed(), false);
   } finally {
-    a.connection.close(); b.connection.close(); server.close();
+    a.connection.close(); b.connection.close(); await server.close();
   }
 });
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ test("a peer that leaves, or goes silent, is dropped and the others keep their s
     steady.connection.send("schema", enc("alive"));
     await waitFor(() => steady.received.includes("re:alive"), "the surviving peer's reply");
   } finally {
-    silent.connection.close(); steady.connection.close(); server.close();
+    silent.connection.close(); steady.connection.close(); await server.close();
   }
 });
 
@@ -167,6 +167,30 @@ test("Connects beyond maxPeers and datagrams from unadmitted endpoints are dropp
     first.connection.send("schema", enc("ok"));
     await waitFor(() => first.received.includes("re:ok"), "the admitted peer's reply");
   } finally {
-    stranger.close(); first.connection.close(); server.close();
+    stranger.close(); first.connection.close(); await server.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("close() delivers a Disconnect to every peer before the socket is released", async () => {
+  const { server, port } = await startServer();
+  const peers = await Promise.all([0, 1, 2].map(async () => {
+    const socket = await bind();
+    const session = new CultNetRudpSession({ connectionId });
+    const types: string[] = [];
+    socket.on("message", (wire) => {
+      const packet = decodeRudpPacket(wire);
+      types.push(packet.packetType);
+      session.receive(packet, Date.now());
+    });
+    socket.send(encodeRudpPacket(session.createConnect(Date.now())), port, "127.0.0.1");
+    await waitFor(() => session.connected, "raw handshake");
+    return { socket, types };
+  }));
+  try {
+    assert.equal(server.peers.length, 3);
+    await server.close();
+    await waitFor(() => peers.every((peer) => peer.types.includes("disconnect")), "every peer to observe the Disconnect");
+  } finally {
+    peers.forEach((peer) => peer.socket.close());
   }
 });