> No. But spreading the range of timeout values used protects against a
> wider range of failures. This way, if one IP address is down, fallback
> on the next one still works, and if the host is generally slow, the
> first IP has a long enough timeout to succeed; whereas dividing the
> timeout equally makes libcurl resilient only against the former.

Come to think of it, if we don't set a shortest time limitation somehow,
we can end up opening a bunch of new connections nearly simultaneously,
just to reset them right after. That doesn't sound like very friendly
behavior; is that acceptable?

-- 
Pierre Ynard
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."
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