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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:23:56 +0100

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

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

Yeah, that's true.  Emacs should reconnect anyway.

But how does this work in practice?  How are we doing name resolution?
Do we have access to all the IP addresses?  Do we have access to the
IPv6 addresses without...  doing stuff?  :-)

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