Re: fatal: unexpected EOF

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Tony Luck, Tue, Feb 28, 2006 16:59:09 +0100:
> > I doubt it is a problem with mirroring, since it affects all repos
> > (kernel, git, cogito, etc.) at the same time.
> 
> Ditto.  Jes has been grumbling overnight that he can't get a reliable pull
> from my kernel repo ... and that hasn't been updated in 10 days, so the
> mirror code shouldn't be touching it.  His error was:
> 
>   fatal: read error (Connection reset by peer)
>   Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/...
> 
> He also reported that after a few retries it worked.

I had the problems too and even made the patch (below) to see what it
was. I saw to A-records for zeus-pub.kernel.org (git.kernel.org is an
alias of it) where one of them (I believe it was 204.152.191.37)
sometimes didn't answer or dropped connection.

---

 connect.c |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

b5ceb5f3f1c6ff62a3ccb13f360a34b07b9c8482
diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 3f2d65c..e911fde 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -322,6 +322,23 @@ static enum protocol get_protocol(const 
 
 #ifndef NO_IPV6
 
+static const char *ai_name(const struct addrinfo *ai)
+{
+	static char addr[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];
+	if ( AF_INET == ai->ai_family ) {
+		struct sockaddr_in *in;
+		in = (struct sockaddr_in *)ai->ai_addr;
+		inet_ntop(ai->ai_family, &in->sin_addr, addr, sizeof(addr));
+	} else if ( AF_INET6 == ai->ai_family ) {
+		struct sockaddr_in6 *in;
+		in = (struct sockaddr_in6 *)ai->ai_addr;
+		inet_ntop(ai->ai_family, &in->sin6_addr, addr, sizeof(addr));
+	} else {
+		strcpy(addr, "(unknown)");
+	}
+	return addr;
+}
+
 static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], const char *prog, char *host, char *path)
 {
 	int sockfd = -1;
@@ -329,6 +346,7 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 	char *port = STR(DEFAULT_GIT_PORT);
 	struct addrinfo hints, *ai0, *ai;
 	int gai;
+	int cnt = 0;
 
 	if (host[0] == '[') {
 		end = strchr(host + 1, ']');
@@ -355,15 +373,23 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 	if (gai)
 		die("Unable to look up %s (%s)", host, gai_strerror(gai));
 
-	for (ai0 = ai; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) {
+	for (ai0 = ai; ai; ++cnt, ai = ai->ai_next) {
 		sockfd = socket(ai->ai_family, ai->ai_socktype, ai->ai_protocol);
 		if (sockfd < 0)
 			continue;
 		if (connect(sockfd, ai->ai_addr, ai->ai_addrlen) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s[%d: %s]: net=%s, errno=%s\n",
+				argv0,
+				host,
+				cnt,
+				ai_name(ai),
+				hstrerror(h_errno),
+				strerror(errno));
 			close(sockfd);
 			sockfd = -1;
 			continue;
 		}
+		fprintf(stderr, "using %s[%s]\n", host, ai_name(ai));
 		break;
 	}
 
@@ -389,6 +415,7 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 	struct sockaddr_in sa;
 	char **ap;
 	unsigned int nport;
+	int cnt;
 
 	if (host[0] == '[') {
 		end = strchr(host + 1, ']');
@@ -420,7 +447,7 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 		nport = se->s_port;
 	}
 
-	for (ap = he->h_addr_list; *ap; ap++) {
+	for (cnt = 0, ap = he->h_addr_list; *ap; ap++, cnt++) {
 		sockfd = socket(he->h_addrtype, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
 		if (sockfd < 0)
 			continue;
@@ -431,10 +458,20 @@ static int git_tcp_connect(int fd[2], co
 		memcpy(&sa.sin_addr, *ap, he->h_length);
 
 		if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof sa) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s[%d: %s]: net=%s, errno=%s\n",
+				argv0,
+				host,
+				cnt,
+				inet_ntoa(*(struct in_addr *)&sa.sin_addr),
+				hstrerror(h_errno),
+				strerror(errno));
 			close(sockfd);
 			sockfd = -1;
 			continue;
 		}
+		fprintf(stderr, "using %s[%s]\n",
+			host,
+			inet_ntoa(*(struct in_addr *)&sa.sin_addr));
 		break;
 	}
 
-- 
1.2.3.g3987