Happy Eyeballs breaks simple-get if ipv6 times out

[koush]

The underlying issue is that when dns resolves to multiple IPs all ips are attempted. ipv6 is tried first, then ipv4. This behavior is known as Happy Eyeballs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs

node http now (v18 or v20?) tries both ipv6 and ipv4 addresses on requests.

For every ip connect timeout failure, it will emit a timeout event which simple-get interprets as an error and terminate the request (which is still attempting other ips).

simple-get/index.js

Line 75 in e7a7411

req.abort()

Specifically, disabling/ignoring this ipv6 timeout event in simple-get allows the request to succeed on ipv4, and prebuild-install completes successfully.

This timeout event handling may be a bug in either node (since the entire request hasnt timed out, just 1 ip attempt), or a bug in simple-get where it should be more discerning about which request timeout events it should observe. In any case, this is an issue with an end user machines ipv6 network configuration.

[koush]

I don't know how to reproduce this issue. It only happens on machines with a seemingly misconfigured or broken ipv6 router.

[vweevers]

Looks like this was a bug in node, fixed in nodejs/node#47860.

[koush]

That does look familiar, but I'm seeing this behavior on node 20.13.1.