# NousResearch/hermes-agent · httpx retry transport for multi-IP DNS auth errors

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #28500: httpx.Client missing retry transport causes auth failures when provider DNS resolves to multiple IPs (first IP refused)
- PR #28545: Retry auth HTTP connections across resolved IPs
- PR #28573: fix(auth): add retry transport to httpx.Client for DNS multi-IP fallback

These members address auth errors caused by \`httpx.Client\` lacking a retry transport when a provider's DNS resolution returns multiple IPs and the first IP refuses the connection. The fix enables retrying across all looked-up IPs.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #28500: httpx.Client missing retry transport causes auth failures when provider DNS resolves to multiple IPs (first IP refused)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#29232: fix(net): enable httpx transport retries for multi-IP DNS resolution (#28500)**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#28545`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#28545: Retry auth HTTP connections across resolved IPs**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `0d82060c74fb04ddefeabf790d7808cac3c7aca5`
  - files: `hermes_cli/auth.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_http_retries.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_xai_oauth_provider.py`
- **#28573: fix(auth): add retry transport to httpx.Client for DNS multi-IP fallback**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#28545`, `#28500`
  - files: `hermes_cli/auth.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`