GNU bug report logs - #17976
24.3; url-retrieve-synchronously doesn't fallback to IPv4

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, patch

Merged with 23620

Found in versions 25.0.94, 24.3

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 17976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Subject: bug#17976: 24.3; url-retrieve-synchronously doesn't fallback to IPv4
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:23:56 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> 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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