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Problem

The reqwest client has no connect_timeout. When an address drops SYNs, the socket sits in SYN_SENT:

  • queries hang for the full http_req_timeout_millis (30s by default) before failing;
  • the SSE height stream (request_no_timeout) has no request timeout at all, so its connect attempt waits until the OS gives up.

Hosts like 1328.hypersync.xyz resolve to several A records. If one node is unreachable from a user's network, every new connection that lands on it stalls. The client is rebuilt every 60s for DNS failover, so this keeps happening. Reported in enviodev/hyperindex#1691: 193.32.220.135 was unreachable over IPv4, with sockets stuck in SYN_SENT and the indexer stalled.

Fix

Set a 5s connect_timeout on the client, via one build_client helper shared by the initial and the refreshed client. hyper-util divides the timeout across the resolved addresses (connect/http.rs: t.checked_div(addrs.len())) and tries the next address when one times out, so a single dead node costs a fraction of a second instead of the whole request.

Tests

  • New test_unreachable_address_fails_at_connect_timeout. A local listener with a full accept queue drops SYNs, just like a blackholed address (Linux only, which matches CI).
    • The test runs on a paused tokio clock, which jumps to whichever timeout fires first, so it takes about 0.1s of real time.
    • It asserts the request fails before the 60s request timeout. With connect_timeout removed it fails with "operation timed out after 60s".
  • I also checked a query directly against the dead address on this branch: the JSON and Cap'n Proto formats both fail at the connect timeout.
  • cargo test -p hypersync-client --lib: 60 passed. cargo clippy --all-targets and cargo fmt --check are clean.
  • Adds tokio's net feature as a dev-dependency for the test listener.

Follow-up

HyperIndex pins hypersync-client = "1.2.0", so it needs a release and a version bump before indexers get this.

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Without one, an address that drops SYNs holds a connection in SYN_SENT
until the request timeout (30s by default) and indefinitely for the SSE
height stream, which sets no request timeout. When a host resolves to
several addresses, one dead node stalls every new connection that picks
it. With a 5s connect timeout, hyper gives up on it and tries the next
address.

Reported in enviodev/hyperindex#1691

Co-authored-by: claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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HTTP clients now use a five-second connection timeout during initial construction and refresh. A Linux-only Tokio test checks that a health check fails before its configured 60-second request timeout when the listener cannot accept a connection.

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HTTP connection timeout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure and verify connection timeout
hypersync-client/src/lib.rs, hypersync-client/Cargo.toml
A shared builder applies a five-second connection timeout to initial and refreshed clients. Tokio’s net feature supports a Linux-only test that checks the timeout behavior.

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The change appears mergeable, but the new test could miss a regression in the five-second connection timeout. Strengthen its assertion before relying on it.

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hypersync-client/src/lib.rs (1)

2072-2104: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the test assert the connect-timeout window.

The filler loop stops on both a 500 ms timeout and an immediate TcpStream::connect error. The health-check assertion then accepts any inner error. A shorter connect timeout or another quick connection error can therefore pass without exercising the five-second timeout. The outer Tokio timeout is rejected, but it does not distinguish the intended timeout from a quick error.

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-        while let Ok(Ok(stream)) = tokio::time::timeout(
-            Duration::from_millis(500),
-            tokio::net::TcpStream::connect(addr),
-        )
-        .await
-        {
-            fillers.push(stream);
+        loop {
+            match tokio::time::timeout(
+                Duration::from_millis(500),
+                tokio::net::TcpStream::connect(addr),
+            )
+            .await
+            {
+                Ok(Ok(stream)) => fillers.push(stream),
+                Ok(Err(err)) => return Err(err.into()),
+                Err(_) => break,
+            }
         }
 
         let client = Client::builder()
             .url(format!("http://{addr}"))
             .api_token("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")
             .http_req_timeout_millis(60_000)
             .build()?;
+        let started = Instant::now();
         let res = tokio::time::timeout(
             CONNECT_TIMEOUT + Duration::from_secs(2),
             client.health_check(None),
         )
         .await;
+        let elapsed = started.elapsed();
         assert!(matches!(res, Ok(Err(_))), "{res:?}");
+        assert!(
+            elapsed >= CONNECT_TIMEOUT,
+            "health_check failed before connect timeout: {elapsed:?}"
+        );
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Review comment at @hypersync-client/src/lib.rs around lines 2072 - 2104:
Update test_unreachable_address_fails_at_connect_timeout to distinguish the
intended connect timeout from quick failures: propagate immediate errors from
the filler connection loop, then measure the health-check duration and assert it
lasts at least CONNECT_TIMEOUT while retaining the existing outer timeout check.

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Review comments at @hypersync-client/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 2072-2104: Update
test_unreachable_address_fails_at_connect_timeout to distinguish the intended
connect timeout from quick failures: propagate immediate errors from the filler
connection loop, then measure the health-check duration and assert it lasts at
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The test waited out the real 5s connect timeout. On a paused clock the
runtime jumps to whichever timeout fires first, so it checks the same
thing instantly: the request fails before the 60s request timeout.

Co-authored-by: claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @hypersync-client/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 2099-2100: Update the assertion in the timeout test using `res`
and `start.elapsed()` to verify that the error identifies a connection timeout
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The test accepted any error before the request timeout, so an address
that refused connections instead of dropping them would pass without
exercising a timeout. Require the filler loop to end on a timed out
connect, and the request to fail within a second of CONNECT_TIMEOUT.

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