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Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
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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 apparent=
ly
> thought so, too. =C2=A0It 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.