This retry logic is a good addition. To improve its readability and maintainability, I have a few suggestions:

• Define maxRetries and the sleep duration as constants. This makes them easier to find and change.
• The explicit type conversion time.Duration(5) is redundant since 5 is an untyped constant.
• For consistency with the rest of the project, it would be better to use plog.Warningf for logging instead of fmt.Printf.

                const maxRetries = 12
		const retryDelay = 5 * time.Second
		for attempt := 1; attempt <= maxRetries; attempt++ {
			l, err = net.Listen("tcp", address)
			if err == nil {
				l.Close()
				break
			}

			plog.Warningf("Failed to listen on %s: %v, retrying (%d/%d)...",
				address, err, attempt, maxRetries)
			time.Sleep(retryDelay)
		}

A few suggestions to improve this retry logic:

1. It's good practice to define magic numbers like 12 and 5 as constants with descriptive names. This improves readability and maintainability.
2. The logging should use the package logger plog instead of fmt.Printf for consistency. plog.Infof seems appropriate for a retry attempt.
3. time.Duration(5) * time.Second can be simplified to 5 * time.Second.