From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:51:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Retry on all A/AAAA records
Message-ID: <BANLkTimbFSoWEkurwoj2ixyDSj9LstsU6Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v39le7tvz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:22, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Jan probably means trying next server even if Git protocol fails, not
just tcp connect.