Re: git-fetch vs ipv6 routing issues

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> writes:

>> 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.

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

Yes, that is true.

But git could be smarter about it.  libcurl has CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE which
can be set to any of CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 or
CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6.  Git could at least allow setting that via a config
option and/or an env var, just like it does for libcurl options like
CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT.

Even better would be to set CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY and then try with
CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6 and CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 in turn
until it gets a connection, and then use CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET and the
full URL to do the GET.

-JimC
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