diff --git a/changes-entries/core-duplicate-listeners.txt b/changes-entries/core-duplicate-listeners.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d392572ac79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes-entries/core-duplicate-listeners.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+  *) core: Fail startup or restart when a duplicated listening socket
+     cannot be initialized, instead of continuing with a broken listener.
+     PR 70106. [Xuqing Yang]
diff --git a/server/listen.c b/server/listen.c
index a8bdd0564a5..b9101cc9b6a 100644
--- a/server/listen.c
+++ b/server/listen.c
@@ -910,7 +910,10 @@ AP_DECLARE(apr_status_t) ap_duplicate_listeners(apr_pool_t *p, server_rec *s,
                                 duplr->bind_addr);
                     return stat;
                 }
-                make_sock(p, duplr, 1);
+                stat = make_sock(p, duplr, 1);
+                if (stat != APR_SUCCESS) {
+                    return stat;
+                }
             }
 #if AP_NONBLOCK_WHEN_MULTI_LISTEN
             use_nonblock = (ap_listeners && ap_listeners->next);