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Problem

In reconnect mode, Connection::dial_any bounded each attempt by what remained of the retry window (retry_budget, and an equal share of it per candidate in attempt_deadline). So the first dial got at most --backoff-timeout (10s), not --connect-timeout (30s), and a later dial got only the window's leftovers. A handshake slower than the window failed every time, and every redial was cut at the same point. In the default mode, which reconnects, the default connect timeout could never apply. One-shot mode had already exempted itself for exactly this reason (see the old retry_budget doc).

Approach

The window is the maximum time to spend retrying, so it decides whether a new attempt starts. Cutting an attempt that is already running spends no retry. It only turns a slow success into a failure.

• The window still gates the top of the loop and the backoff sleep (retry_wait), as before.
• In a walk, a candidate with another address after it keeps its 5s CONNECT_ATTEMPT bound. The last candidate runs to the connect timeout, as in one-shot mode.
• The walk always finishes, so a reachable later candidate still gets its turn after black-holed ones. That is what the equal share protected.

This removes retry_budget, attempt_deadline, and their two pure-function tests.

Trade-off: giving up can overshoot the window by one walk. With the defaults, a single black-holed address now gives up after about 30s instead of about 10s. If that matters, the knob is the default connect.timeout, which this PR leaves alone.

Impact

No public API change. Behavior change: the moq-tokio reconnect loop only. Wire: none. The Backoff::timeout docs now say a walk under way finishes, its last dial running to the connect timeout, so giving up can overrun the window by one walk.

Validation

• moq-tokio tests/reconnect.rs::a_handshake_slower_than_the_retry_window_still_lands: a tls:// dial through a proxy that holds each connection for 1s, with a 300ms retry window. On main: reconnect timed out after 300ms: timed out connecting to tls://127.0.0.1:…. With the fix, it connects on the first dial.
• nix develop --command just check passed: 3,804 Rust tests (13 skipped), plus the moq-c, moq-gst, FFI and Python suites.

Merge note: rebased onto #5350, so this test's backoff.timeout is Some(...). #5237 had since made dial_any prefer a transient failure over a terminal one; that stays, and its "retry window elapsed before dialing" fallback goes, since the walk now always dials every candidate.

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Walkthrough

The reconnect address walk no longer uses the retry-window duration to limit an in-progress dial. Non-final candidates remain bounded by CONNECT_ATTEMPT, and the final candidate runs until the client connect timeout. When all candidates fail, dial_any returns the last error. A new test checks that a delayed TLS handshake can complete after the retry window expires without starting a second dial.

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Multi-address reconnects can take longer than the timeout documentation suggests. The behavior is intentional, but the description should be corrected; the PR remains mergeable.

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Document the whole address-walk overrun

When a public Addrs contains multiple slow or black-holed candidates and the retry window expires during the first one, dial_any still starts every remaining candidate. Each non-final candidate can add CONNECT_ATTEMPT and the final candidate can add the full connect timeout, so the loop can exceed the window by an entire, arbitrarily long address walk rather than “one dial,” and attempts do start after the window passes. Please describe that actual bound here so operators do not configure shutdown or failover around an incorrect maximum.

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Fixed in 130a5e8. The Backoff::timeout and attempt_timeout docs now say the window stops a new walk from starting, a walk under way tries every candidate (5s each but the last, which runs to the connect timeout), and giving up can overrun the window by one whole walk.

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Reviewed 0f47132. No actionable findings.

The direction is sound: removing the competing retry-window deadline lets an in-progress handshake finish while preserving the explicit policy of completing the address walk and bounding non-final candidates. The rebase retains transient-error preference and adapts the regression test to the optional backoff timeout.

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- Around line 107-109: Update the retry-window documentation near `dial_any` and
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Merging. Rebased onto main after #5350: the walk keeps #5237's preference for a transient failure over a terminal one, and drops its "retry window elapsed before dialing" fallback, since every walk now dials every candidate. The test's backoff.timeout is Some(...). Codex and CodeRabbit both flagged that the docs understated the overrun (a whole walk, not one dial); fixed in 130a5e8 and acknowledged. The OpenAI review of the rebased head had no findings. The overrun tradeoff was accepted by the maintainer.

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