bug#30475: 25.3; connection-failure errors

bug#30475: 25.3; connection-failure errors

[Ken Raeburn]

I'm running on a network with a broken IPv6 setup; there are router
advertisements so I get a network address and default router, but the
router can't get anywhere so I always get "no route" errors back.

If I try running rcirc to connect to freenode, I sometimes get:

  Connecting to irc.freenode.net...
  open-network-stream: Failed connect: No route to host

If I retry a few times, eventually it succeeds. At the moment,
irc.freenode.net resolves to 5 IPv4 addresses and 3 IPv6
addresses. Emacs doesn't tell me which address it's trying each time,
but I expect something is doing randomization or round-robin ordering.

1) It might be useful (for debugging, at least) if the error message
indicated the host name and, when open-network-stream is given a host
name, the actual address tried that got the error, if we're not going to
try multiple addresses.

2) If a host has multiple addresses, routing failures (or timeouts, or
probably some other failures) should cause us to try the next
address. The error on one address should probably still be displayed so
it's saved to the *Messages* buffer, but success on a second address
when the first is unreachable should still let the application code go
forward.

2a) In fact, it wouldn't be completely insane to make "Happy Eyeballs"
(RFC 8305) style staggered but parallel connection attempts when both
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are available.




In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.19)
 of 2017-09-14 built on buildvm-31.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.11906000
System Description:	Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven)

Configured using:
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Configured features:
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Important settings:
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Major mode: rcirc

Minor modes in effect:
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Recent messages:
open-network-stream: Failed connect: No route to host
Connecting to irc.freenode.net...
open-network-stream: Failed connect: No route to host
Connecting to irc.freenode.net...done
Connecting to irc.devel.redhat.com...done
Quit
funcall-interactively: End of buffer
mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [4 times]
Mark set
mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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bug#30475: 25.3; connection-failure errors

[Ken Raeburn]

It's been pointed out to me that we have internal IPv6 routing, just not 
outside access. So the network is configured as intended. Anyway...

It probably won't be a surprise that smtpmail (as used when filing a bug 
report!) can fail the same way. Probably most things that try to connect 
to servers with IPv6 addresses available will intermittently fail this way.

Ken