From 4e204f37fd994b3bd11a829c9f6938b5a3ca9774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:42:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net: defer DNS lookup error events to next tick

net.createConnection() creates a net.Socket object
and immediately calls net.Socket.connect() on it.

There are no event listeners registered yet so
defer the error event to the next tick.

Fixes #1202.
---
 lib/net.js | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/net.js b/lib/net.js
index 8d88c69bba8c..35eb84d4988e 100644
--- a/lib/net.js
+++ b/lib/net.js
@@ -717,7 +717,13 @@ Socket.prototype.connect = function() {
     // TCP
     require('dns').lookup(arguments[1], function(err, ip, addressType) {
       if (err) {
-        self.emit('error', err);
+        // net.createConnection() creates a net.Socket object and
+        // immediately calls net.Socket.connect() on it (that's us).
+        // There are no event listeners registered yet so defer the
+        // error event to the next tick.
+        process.nextTick(function() {
+          self.emit('error', err);
+        });
       } else {
         timers.active(self);
         self.type = addressType == 4 ? 'tcp4' : 'tcp6';