From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:22:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Retry on all A/AAAA records
Message-ID: <7v39le7tvz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1104161312590.11706@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> writes:

> Just now, some git server that is in the DNS rotation seems to have an 
> issue,
> $ telnet git.eu.kernel.org git
> Trying 199.6.1.166...
> Connected to git.eu.kernel.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> I thought it would be nice if git-fetch would retry the operation on 
> the other DNS records that were returned if the connection breaks.

I think people who wrote git_tcp_connect_sock() in connect.c apparently
thought so, too.  It uses either gethostbyname() or getaddrinfo() and
iterate over the list of addresses returned from these functions.