connect(2) behavior with unreacheable hosts

[David Malone]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:45:54PM -0400, BelletJr at aol.com wrote:
> Why does not connect(2) return any error when trying to connect to a host 
> unreachable because of an infinite loop in the routes? No time-out occurs and 
> the value 0 is returned by connect(2).
> My test was done with TCP/IPv4.

I've tried connecting to a host which is unreachable in both 4.X
and 5.X and in both cases connect returns an error with "Operation
timed out". I wonder if you could post your source code and/or a
tcpdump of what's actually sent and recieved over the network while
this is happening?

	David.