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WalkthroughDNS connections now attempt resolved addresses sequentially. Failed attempts advance immediately, while later attempts use 250 ms deadlines processed by POSIX event-loop timing or a libuv timer. Tests cover reaching a later address and connection counts. ChangesDNS connection dialing
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test/js/bun/dns/dns-interleave.test.ts— nit: header comments still describe the removed behaviour — "the four parallel connection attempts" / "so the four parallel attempts always cover both families" (lines 3–9) and the reference tostart_connections()(line 21), which this PR renames tous_internal_socket_start_next_attempt. Fix: update the wording to match the new one-at-a-time staggered dial and the new function name.Extended reasoning...
Doc-only: the file-header comment (lines 3–9) explains the interleave in terms of
CONCURRENT_CONNECTIONS = 4parallel attempts, and line 21 namesstart_connections(); both were removed/renamed by this diff. No runtime effect, but the next reader of this test is misled about how usockets now dials.Verification: nit — Both stale references are real and were made stale by this PR's changes to context.c. Line 21 (unchanged by the diff) still says the seeded entry "is consumed by usockets via Bun__addrinfo_getRequestResult and start_connections()." Grep of packages/bun-usockets/ for
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Thanks — 0b402eb addresses the Windows early-fire issue: the ms is now rounded up with a floor of 1, and the early-return path in us_internal_connect_attempts_if_due re-arms connect_timer before returning, so an early wake self-corrects instead of stalling. I didn't find further issues. Given this rewires the connect strategy for every usockets client across three event-loop backends, a human pass is still worthwhile.
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- libuv timer arming after the fix — ceil + floor-1 + re-arm on early return closes the gap; a stale deadline after success just costs one no-op wake.
- List-walk safety in
us_internal_connect_attempts_if_due—start_next_attemptunderconnecting_head != NULLcannot freecor dispatch on_connect_error, soc->next_pendingstays valid. InternalLoopData.rsstruct mirror — newconnect_next_attempt_ns: i64and#[cfg(windows)] connect_timermatchloop_data.hfield order and gating.- POSIX path —
us_internal_clamp_to_sequencefolds the connect deadline into the poll timeout alongside the sweep deadline; no extra fd/syscall.
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Overview
This PR replaces usockets' "open 4 parallel connect() attempts" with RFC 8305 §5 staggered dialing: one address at a time, next started 250 ms later or immediately on failure. It touches the POSIX epoll/kqueue backend (deadline folded into poll timeout), the Windows libuv backend (dedicated uv_timer_t), the shared scheduling machinery in loop.c, the connecting-socket state in context.c, header/struct declarations, the Rust FFI mirror of us_internal_loop_data_t, and the dns-interleave test.
My prior review flagged that on Windows the one-shot connect_timer could fire before the ns deadline (truncated ms + stale loop->time), hit the now < deadline early return without re-arming, and never dial the second address. Commit 0b402eb fixed both halves: us_internal_connect_timer_arm now rounds the ms up and floors at 1, and us_internal_connect_attempts_if_due re-arms the timer before the early return. An early fire now self-corrects with one extra wake.
Security risks
None identified. This is client-side connection sequencing; no untrusted input is parsed, no auth/crypto touched. The change reduces the number of speculative connections opened against a server (from up-to-4 parallel to 1-at-a-time-plus-stagger), which is strictly less aggressive.
Level of scrutiny
High. This is the connect path shared by fetch(), WebSocket, Bun.connect(), and bun install, across three event-loop backends with an FFI struct-layout mirror that must stay byte-exact. A regression here breaks all outbound networking. The #[cfg(windows)] field and the LIBUS_USE_LIBUV timer path are not exercised by the Linux-only test in this PR — the PR description reports running the broader net/fetch/websocket suites, but Windows CI is the real validation.
Other factors
The list-walk invariant ("nothing here can close c or mutate the lists") holds because us_internal_socket_start_next_attempt is only called when connecting_head != NULL, so its failure branch takes the else if (schedule next / no-op) rather than the on_connect_error dispatch that would free c. The stale-deadline-after-success case (loop wakes, walk finds nothing due, clears to -1) is benign as the PR notes state. The new test is Linux-glibc-gated and uses a bounded AbortSignal.timeout rather than sleeps. Given the cross-backend surface and that the libuv path has no automated coverage in this PR, a maintainer sign-off is appropriate before merge.
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the new libuv connect_timer is closed on both the loop-free and the init-failure path in packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c, and that the two new us_internal_loop_data_t fields in loop_data.h are mirrored in the same position and width in src/uws_sys/InternalLoopData.rs (with the timer pointer gated to Windows) — both line up. The per-test timeout in the new dns-interleave test is a convention nit only, not a correctness issue.
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The change replaces usockets' four-at-once dial with a 250 ms staggered per-address dial across context.c, loop.c, epoll_kqueue.c, internal.h and loop_data.h, mirrors the new loop-data fields in Rust, and adds tests. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface. Two confirmed findings (a use-after-free in the due walk and leftover temporary getenv/test code) are posted inline and already signal that a human must look before merge.
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Review comments at @packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h:
- Around line 205-209: Remove the temporary dial-tracing and measurement code,
including `US_TEMP_DIAL_TRACE`, `us_internal_temp_dial_trace`,
`us_internal_temp_dial_reason`, and the `stdio.h` include from the shared
header; remove their call sites and writes across the dial, loop, and libuv
code. Remove the `BUN_INTERNAL_TEMP_DIAL_ALL_AT_ONCE` branch so dialing retains
its normal behavior, and delete the temporary dial-pattern stress tests and
related test instrumentation.
Review comments at @test/js/bun/dns/dns-interleave.test.ts:
- Line 258: Remove the trailing 20_000 timeout argument from the test
declaration; keep the separate 20_000 kill timer passed to run(...) unchanged.
- Around line 316-320: Remove the temporary dial-trace instrumentation from the
census test: stop passing BUN_INTERNAL_TEMP_DIAL_TRACE through the isWindows
options and remove the DIAL_TRACE console.log; also remove the corresponding C
trace code. Preserve the existing stderr assertion and normal dialing behavior.
Review comments at @test/js/bun/dns/temp-dial-pattern-stress-a.test.ts:
- Around line 1-126: Delete the temporary TCP socket measurement test containing
“kernel TCP sockets left behind per dial pattern” and its duplicate,
temp-dial-pattern-stress-b.test.ts; do not replace them with another
timing-based test.
Review comments at @test/js/bun/dns/temp-dial-pattern-stress-b.test.ts:
- Around line 1-126: Delete the temporary test containing
`temp-dial-pattern-stress-b.test.ts`; it duplicates the `-a` measurement test
and relies on fixed sleeps, a long test timeout, and no meaningful assertion. Do
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🟡 (optional) Operators of a multi-address host that is dropping SYNs now get one pending connect per address from every Bun dial, not the base branch's 4. The timer walk at loop.c:198-203 opens another address every 250 ms while earlier attempts stay pending and never counts them. A 24-record name holds 24 sockets per dial after 6 s; bun install's default 256 concurrent requests make 6144 retransmitting SYN streams against the struggling server. Fix: bound in-flight attempts per connecting socket on the timer path (close the timed-out attempt before dialing the next, as Node does, or cap in-flight at 2 like curl), keeping the immediate advance on failure at context.c:836. The description calls the missing cap intended; this amplification is its cost.
Why this was flagged
Trigger: a name with many addresses whose SYNs are dropped rather than refused, dialed through fetch(), Bun.connect(), WebSocket or bun install. Base branch: start_connections opened 4 attempts and refilled only when at most one was pending, so a dial never held more than 4 pending connects. New code: us_internal_socket_start_next_attempt (context.c:698) opens exactly one, us_internal_connect_attempt_schedule (loop.c:157) re-arms 250 ms later, and the walk at loop.c:198-203 starts the next address whenever c->connecting_head != NULL with no count of how many attempts are already pending. For registry.npmjs.org a dial reaches 24 pending sockets after 23 x 250 ms = 5.75 s, each retransmitting SYNs for ~2 min. bun install runs up to MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_REQUESTS = 256 (src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:70) such dials, so an overloaded registry sees up to 6144 SYN streams instead of 1024. The PR text states 'There is no cap on pending attempts' as a design choice; nothing in the code bounds it, and Node's autoSelectFamily and curl both bound it.
Verification: Triggering condition: a name with many addresses whose SYNs are dropped. On the base, start_connections (context.c:755) opened 4, so a dial never held more than 4 pending connects. In the new code packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c:198-203 has one gate, at least one attempt still pending; nothing counts pending attempts, so a dial accumulates one pending connect() per resolved address, vs. 4 on the base.
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Agreed that this is a cost, and it is now listed under Downsides in the PR body: with no bound, a name whose N addresses all drop SYNs holds N pending connects per dial after (N-1) x 250 ms, where the old code held 4. A bound has to keep the later addresses reachable, or the stall this PR fixes comes back (four black holes in front of a live fifth address). The two candidates are to close the oldest pending attempt when a new one starts past the bound, or to give each attempt a timeout the way Node does. I have not picked one yet. This thread stays open until I do.
Dial one address at a time. Start the next address 250 ms after the previous one while the earlier attempts are still pending, or at once when an attempt fails. The first address to connect wins and the rest are reset. Before, the first four addresses were opened at once and a fifth was only tried once at most one attempt was left pending. Two black holes plus two refused addresses in the first four parked the dial on the kernel's SYN retries for about two minutes. A name with three addresses also cost the server three accepted connections, two of them reset.
uv_timer_start counts from the cached loop time in whole milliseconds, so the one-shot timer can fire just before the nanosecond deadline. Round the delay up and re-arm from the callback on an early fire.
… when loop init fails A name with three addresses must cost the server one accepted connection per dial. The test counts accepts on a listener for fetch() and Bun.connect(). It runs on every platform. us_internal_loop_data_init can now fail after the timers exist (libuv). Close the connect timer on that path, next to the sweep timer.
…osing us_connecting_socket_close keeps the socket linked in its group until the owner has heard the error, and the owner can run the loop from that callback. A due attempt delay then opened a new attempt whose connect_state pointed at the socket that is freed right after. Clear the scheduled attempt on close, and skip a closed socket in the walk.
… cannot break The census test now records the count of each dial and asserts fewer than two connections per dial over ten dials. A dial whose first connect is reported later than the attempt delay opens a second connection, so an exact count could fail on a loaded machine. Dialing every address at once gives three per dial.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline finding, the new commits were checked against the earlier threads: the due walk now skips c->closed and us_connecting_socket_close zeroes next_attempt_ns, so a nested tick from a connectError callback cannot start an attempt on a freed c; the temporary env switch and macOS diagnostic tests are gone; the libuv timer rounds up and re-arms on an early fire. Also checked that InternalLoopData.rs mirrors the two new C fields in order (including the #[cfg(windows)] timer), that the loop-init failure path closes connect_timer, and that the "a new deadline is never earlier than the armed one" invariant holds since every delay is the same length and the walk recomputes the minimum. Windows behavior of the census test could not be exercised here.
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The change replaces usockets' four-at-once connect strategy with a 250 ms staggered dial across context.c, loop.c, socket.c, epoll_kqueue.c, the loop-data structs and their Rust mirror, plus a new test block; it touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface. It is event-loop scheduling code with platform-split timer handling and the PR description itself still reports an unexplained Windows connection count, which this run could not verify, so a human look remains worthwhile alongside the inline nit.
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🟡 nit (optional): the timing assertion in the new stagger test cannot fail on its own, so maintainers get no signal from it. With signal: AbortSignal.timeout(4000) in the fixture, ok: true already implies the fetch finished before 4000 ms, so expect(out.ms).toBeLessThan(4000) at dns-interleave.test.ts:255 is vacuous once the toEqual above passed. Fix: either drop the line or assert the bound the test is really about (the PR text says ~500 ms: three delays plus two immediate failures), for example a bound well under the abort deadline that a 4 s stall still fails, while keeping enough slack for debug/ASAN runners.
Why this was flagged
The new test at test/js/bun/dns/dns-interleave.test.ts:214-257 runs a fixture whose fetch uses AbortSignal.timeout(4000) (line 230). If the fetch aborts, result.ok is false and the toEqual at line 248 fails first. If result.ok is true, performance.now() - t0 was necessarily below the 4000 ms abort, so the follow-up expect(out.ms).toBeLessThan(4000) at line 255 can never be the assertion that fails. The REVIEW.md rule 'every assertion must be able to fail, and assert the strongest invariant' is not met; the base branch has no such test. No runtime consequence; only a vacuous check copied from the pre-existing test at line 202.
Verification: nit. Triggering condition: unconditional. In test/js/bun/dns/dns-interleave.test.ts:230-238, result.ok is only true when the fetch completes without the signal firing. The toEqual at lines 249-254 requires out.ok === true, so by the time line 255 runs, the fetch has already completed inside the 4000 ms abort window. REVIEW.md requires "Every assertion must be able to fail".
Problem
fetch(),WebSocket,Bun.connect()andbun installdial the first four addresses of a name at once and reset the losers. A 3-address name costs the server 3 connections per dial. Node costs 1.us_internal_socket_after_open,packages/bun-usockets/src/context.c).Fix
uv_timer_tper loop.test/js/bun/dns/dns-interleave.test.ts. Stock bun givesTimeoutErrorat 4 s and 3 connections per dial.Background
us_connecting_socket_tis one dial to a name. Each attempt is a socket in itsconnecting_head.Downsides
clock_gettimecalls per tick while a delay is pending, 598 bytes of text.Notes
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connect_timer) has no automated test. The test that needs a hanging address runs on Linux only.Connection counts (Linux, this branch against bun 1.4.3)
127.0.0.1records, counted byBun.listen: 30 before, 10 after, forfetch()and forBun.connect().fetch("http://localhost:PORT/")calls against anode:netlistener on::: 100 accepted and 50 reset before, 50 and 0 after.macOS kernel sockets (one run, CI build 127962, tart guest, macOS 26.4, arm64)
The question came from #43462, which reports that on macOS 26 the old dial is one trigger of kernel TCP sockets that outlive every process. The run used a temporary switch, so that one binary could dial both ways. Each arm did 300
fetch()calls to aBun.serveon the default hostname, read one chunk of a 4 MiB body, and aborted. The count issysctl net.inet.tcp.pcbcount.localhost(old)localhost(this change)127.0.0.1The arms ran in that order, one after the other. The old dial allocates 1201 sockets for 300 requests, the other two 601. 36 s after its process exited, the old dial's sockets were all still counted, in both rounds. They were gone when the next arm finished, so they went away between 36 s and 72 s after the exit. The sockets of the other two dials were gone after 36 s (round 2, and the
localhostarm of round 1).Limits of that run:
How the costs were counted
-O2with the build's own flags, for the merge base and for this branch, thensize.loop.c+526,epoll_kqueue.c+106,context.c-34,socket.c+0.us_internal_connect_attempt_timeout_ns, 9 more in its caller, 4 forus_internal_connect_attempts_if_dueand its call. Release builds use ThinLTO, which can inline these calls.Related
fetch()and kept the four parallel attempts. It does not coverBun.connect()orWebSocket.--dns-result-orderreach this path. It edits the same packer indns.rs.Suites run on the debug build of this branch
test/js/bun/dns/dns-interleave.test.ts: 12 pass, 3 skip (names that this host's hosts file does not have).test/js/bun/net/,test/js/web/fetch/client-fetch.test.ts,test-net-autoselectfamily.js,test-http-autoselectfamily.js, run together: 456 pass, 5 fail.socket > should not call drain before handshakeneeds the public internet. The other four (insocket-retention.test.tsandsocket-syscall-fault.test.ts) stop at the 5 s default limit in the combined run and pass when their file runs alone.no test proof · iteration 7 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/dns/temp-dial-pattern-stress-b.test.ts, test/js/bun/dns/temp-dial-pattern-stress-a.test.ts, test/js/bun/dns/dns-interleave.test.ts