**Summary**
By default c-ares will select the server with the least number of
consecutive failures when sending a query. However, this means that if a
server temporarily goes down and hits failures (e.g. a transient network
issue), then that server will never be retried until all other servers
hit the same number of failures.
This is an issue if the failed server is preferred to other servers in
the list. For example if a primary server and a backup server are
configured.
This PR adds new server failover retry behavior, where failed servers
are retried with small probability after a minimum delay has passed. The
probability and minimum delay are configurable via the
`ARES_OPT_SERVER_FAILOVER` option. By default c-ares will use a
probability of 10% and a minimum delay of 5 seconds.
In addition, this PR includes a small change to always close out
connections to servers which have hit failures, even with
`ARES_FLAG_STAYOPEN`. It's possible that resetting the connection can
resolve some server issues (e.g. by resetting the source port).
**Testing**
A new set of regression tests have been added to test the new server
failover retry behavior.
Fixes Issue: #717
Fix By: Oliver Welsh (@oliverwelsh)
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The rc4 function iterates over a buffer of size buffer_len who's maximum
value is INT_MAX with a counter of type short that is not guaranteed to
have maximum size INT_MAX.
In circumstances where short is narrower than int and where buffer_len
is larger than the maximum value of a short, it may be possible to loop
infinitely as counter will overflow and never be greater than or equal
to buffer_len.
The solution is to make the comparison be between types of equal width.
This commit defines counter as an int.
Fix By: Fionn Fitzmaurice (@fionn)
Brad House
Oliver Welsh
Daniel Stenberg
Fionn Fitzmaurice