On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:22, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. ÂIt 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html