diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
index a051730..1a29c36 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
@@ -294,15 +294,16 @@
     '''
     Return a connection object connected to the socket given by `address`
     '''
-    family = address_type(address)
-    s = socket.socket( getattr(socket, family) )
-    s.setblocking(True)
+    family = getattr(socket, address_type(address))
     t = _init_timeout()
 
     while 1:
+        s = socket.socket(family)
+        s.setblocking(True)
         try:
             s.connect(address)
         except socket.error, e:
+            s.close()
             if e.args[0] != errno.ECONNREFUSED or _check_timeout(t):
                 debug('failed to connect to address %s', address)
                 raise
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e074d7f..0b2dadf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #18455: multiprocessing should not retry connect() with same socket.
+
 - Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process Unicode strings nested in a tuple as it
   do with byte strings.