Hi Bradford Bruce, you wrote:

If you set a low (CONNECT)TIMEOUT, then this is the expected behaviour,
because the operation times out before the resolver returns.

That is actually documented for the TIMEOUT option but apparently
missing in the docs for CONNECTTIMEOUT.

Regards,

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