bug#23658: 25.1.50; make-network-connection fails to connect to IPv6 address on Windows

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 6/5/2016 12:56 PM, Fran wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>> On 6/1/2016 5:55 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>
>> While we're waiting for an expert to respond to this, it's easy to
>> test if my guess is correct.  Please apply the following patch,
>> rebuild, and retry your tests.
>
> [...]
>
>> This will print a message in the echo area (and the *Messages* buffer)
>> on each iteration of the loop.  If my guess is correct, you should see
>> more than one iteration in the IPv6 case if ":nowait t" is removed.
>> It would also be interesting to see if ":family 'ipv6" has any effect,
>> again without ":nowait t".
>
> I did a "git pull", applied that patch, and rebuilt.  I see the
> following in *Messages* no matter if ":nowait t" or ":family 'ipv6" is
> present or absent (I tried all four combinations):
>
>     Trying addrinfo structure 1
>
> I never see that message with the value 2 in it.

OK, my guess was wrong.  I'm out of ideas.  I hope one of the experts 
can help you.

Ken