- after EHLO causes it to try HELO). If so, fail all addresses, as this host is
- never going to accept them. For other errors during setting up (timeouts or
- whatever), defer all addresses, and yield DEFER, so that the host is not
- tried again for a while. */
+ after EHLO causes it to try HELO). If so, and there are no more hosts to try,
+ fail all addresses, as this host is never going to accept them. For other
+ errors during setting up (timeouts or whatever), defer all addresses, and
+ yield DEFER, so that the host is not tried again for a while.
+
+ XXX This peeking for another host feels like a layering violation. We want
+ to note the host as unusable, but down here we shouldn't know if this was
+ the last host to try for the addr(list). Perhaps the upper layer should be
+ the one to do set_errno() ? The problem is that currently the addr is where
+ errno etc. are stashed, but until we run out of hosts to try the errors are
+ host-specific. Maybe we should enhance the host_item definition? */