From: ben@...
Date: 2020-08-03T16:23:24+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:99456] [Ruby master Bug#15773] Net::HTTP doesn't try next IP address in case of timeout
Issue #15773 has been updated by benlangfeld (Ben Langfeld).
phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin) wrote in #note-5:
> benlangfeld (Ben Langfeld) wrote in #note-4:
> >
> > RFC3484 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3484.txt) very clearly states:
> >
>
> Minor point, I don't think it affects much, but RFC 3484 is obsolete and is replaced by RFC 6724 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6724
>
> Cheers
Thank you for pointing that out. RFC 6724 is even more explicit:
```
Well-behaved applications SHOULD NOT simply use the first address
returned from an API such as getaddrinfo() and then give up if it
fails. For many applications, it is appropriate to iterate through
the list of addresses returned from getaddrinfo() until a working
address is found. For other applications, it might be appropriate to
try multiple addresses in parallel (e.g., with some small delay in
between) and use the first one to succeed.
```
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Bug #15773: Net::HTTP doesn't try next IP address in case of timeout
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15773#change-86913
* Author: nicolasnoble (Nicolas Noble)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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This example requires to have a working IPv6 address. Since IPv6 is used in first priority, I am using it to demonstrate the problem, but it exists with plain IPv4, which will be more round-robin-style, so less deterministic to show a reproduction case. I have made two URLs that have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses: http://ipv6.grumpycoder.net/ and http://bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net/ - both URLs should work in an IPv6-enabled web browser, as well as curl or wget for instance. The difference is that the bad-ipv6 subdomain doesn't have an IPv6 that will actually connect. Therefore, browsers, curl and wget will fallback to using the IPv4 when the initial IPv6 connection attempt failed:
```
$ wget -T1 http://bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net -O - # demonstrating using wget because its output is more clear than curl's verbose
--2019-04-16 15:56:52-- http://bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net/
Resolving bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net (bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net)... 2001:bc8:3690:200::2, 62.210.214.144
Connecting to bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net (bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net)|2001:bc8:3690:200::2|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net (bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net)|62.210.214.144|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 45 [text/html]
Saving to: ���STDOUT���
- 0%[ ] 0 --.-KB/s It works!
- 100%[=====================================================================>] 45 --.-KB/s in 0s
2019-04-16 15:56:53 (6.55 MB/s) - written to stdout [45/45]
```
However, in Ruby, using Net::HTTP (or OpenURI), that's not going to be the case:
```
$ ruby bad-ipv6.rb
http://ipv6.grumpycoder.net
It works!
http://bad-ipv6.grumpycoder.net
Net::OpenTimeout: execution expired
```
Contents of my test file:
```ruby
require 'open-uri'
['ipv6', 'bad-ipv6'].each do |s|
url = 'http://%s.grumpycoder.net' %[s]
puts url
begin
puts open(url).read
rescue StandardError => e
puts "#{e.class}: #{e.message}"
next
end
end
```
The proper behavior should be to retry the next IP address and exhaust all of the IPs in the DNS resolution results before throwing out an error.
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