we should time out requests to non-responsive servers rather than letting the upstream proxy return a 504

matrix-org / matrix-federation-tester

Tester for matrix federation written in golang.

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we should time out requests to non-responsive servers rather than letting the upstream proxy return a 504 #10

Closed richvdh closed 5 years ago

dkasak commented 6 years ago

Yes, please. This causes mysterious problems in cases when a server exposes both IPv4 and IPv6 and one of them is misconfigured, making federationtester appear broken. It would be much more useful if it reported that e.g. IPv4 is okay, but IPv6 doesn't work.