Subject: bug#17976: 24.3; url-retrieve-synchronously doesn't fallback to IPv4

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:14:37 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> But I've never used IPv6.

This is independent of IPv6.  A hostname could also resolve to multiple
IPv4 addresses where only one of them is (currently) reachable.

Andreas.

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