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github: say why a forge could not be reached instead of 'connection failed' - #136

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✍️ Description

The release lookup ran curl silently and reported every transport failure as 'Connection to github failed', exit 7. Reproduce the failure once with curl's message visible, classify the exit code (DNS, no route, timeout, TLS, reset), probe IPv4 against IPv6 for the common broken-v6 case, and return curl's real code so the error table matches.

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Fixes community-scripts/ProxmoxVE#17835

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The release lookup ran curl silently and reported every transport
failure as 'Connection to github failed', exit 7. Reproduce the failure
once with curl's message visible, classify the exit code (DNS, no route,
timeout, TLS, reset), probe IPv4 against IPv6 for the common broken-v6
case, and return curl's real code so the error table matches.
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Try this branch

The engine and the scripts resolve independently, so a production script can
be run against the engine from this PR by setting one variable:

COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_CORE_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/core/fix/forge-connection-diagnosis \
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/ct/debian.sh)"

Swap ct/debian.sh for whatever exercises the change.

Run a script from a fork as well
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/core/fix/forge-connection-diagnosis/tools/run.sh |
  bash -s -- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOU/DevScripts/your-branch ct/debian.sh \
             https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/core/fix/forge-connection-diagnosis

Note that run.sh is reached through a pipe, so the script it starts inherits
an exhausted stdin. Whiptail is fine — it opens /dev/tty — but a plain read
would see EOF. The single-variable form above does not have that problem.

Useful flags while testing

dev_mode=net logs every engine fetch with status and duration, which is the
quickest way to confirm the branch is really being used. dev_mode=keep stops a
failed build from deleting the container along with the evidence.

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MickLesk merged commit e662f41 into main Oct 14, 2026
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