gnutls-cli should handle network errors more gracefully

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> The expected result here is that `gnutls-cli` would keep trying other
>>> addresses returned from getaddrinfo(), until at least one succeeds.
>>
>>
>> I'm curious, how do other networking programs avoid this issue? Do they
>> keep trying or do they provide an option to force IPv4 or 6?
>
> The ones I just tested – `lftp`, `curl`, `nc-openbsd`, `mutt`, `ncat`,
> `wget`, inetutils `telnet` and `ssh` – keep trying addresses until one
> succeeds, or until the program runs out of addresses to try.

Hello,
 Could you try this patch and verify that it works in your use case?
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git;a=commitdiff;h=5da62fb671474b1ffaad5dd3062895ca109c47bf

regards,
Nikos