From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:25:30 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch vs ipv6 routing issues
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0806010924340.27605@yvahk3.pbagnpgbe.fr>
In-Reply-To: <m38wxq1hou.fsf@eagle.jhcloos.com>

On Sat, 31 May 2008, James Cloos wrote:

> I just noticed that, given a remote URL with a hostname which has both A and 
> AAAA RRs in the DNS, git-fetch will retry a git-protocol fetch using the v4 
> address if the v6 address is unreachable, but will not do so when the remote 
> is an http URL.

Isn't this simply because libcurl (used for http) has no retry functionality 
on this scenario while git itself has that for the git protocol?

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