On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 23:14, Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> wrote: > You mean how many IP addresses in the list to try?
Yes, but not sure who will care about the option after we have both individual-IP-timeout, and total-connect-timeout, as you mentioned. I rarely see A record with 20 IP addresses; in fact, I didn't. We can also put the change on hold until someone shows up, complaining, on the mailing list. > If you have suggestions on how to clarify this in the documentation, please > go ahead. Writing clear documentation is a challenge. Lets me think about it. I am not sure yet how I can contribute to the document; I'll get back to you via the mailing list, then. > Should the old option perhaps still remain as a "total time to try" option? > Then we can set them like this: > > individual-IP-timeout: 5 seconds (the new option) > total-connect-timeout: 20 seconds (the old option) > > ... and then it could attempt to connect to as many IP addresses as possible > within the given restraints. That would be perfect, and that is the only change to support my use case. (in millisecond unit, please) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
