On 21/08/2018 09:29, Martin Storsjö wrote:
> For cases with dual stack (IPv4 + IPv6) connectivity, but where one
> stack potentially is less reliable, strive to trying to connect over
> both protocols in parallel, using whichever address connected first.
> 
> In cases with a hostname resolving to multiple IPv4 and IPv6
> addresses, the current connection mechanism would try all addresses
> in the order returned by getaddrinfo (with all IPv6 addresses ordered
> before the IPv4 addresses normally). If connection attempts to the
> IPv6 addresses return quickly with an error, this was no problem, but
> if they were unsuccessful leading up to timeouts, the connection process
> would have to wait for timeouts on all IPv6 target addresses before
> attempting any IPv4 address.
> 
> Similar to what RFC 8305 suggests, reorder the list of addresses to
> try connecting to, interleaving address families. After starting one
> connection attempt, start another one in parallel after a small delay
> (200 ms as suggested by the RFC).
> 
> For cases with unreliable IPv6 but reliable IPv4, this should make
> connection attempts work as reliably as with plain IPv4, with only an
> extra 200 ms of connection delay.

The set looks fine to me.

lu

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