ipfs/kubo

Print dial status messages to stderr

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#4,355 opened on Oct 30, 2017

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Description

Currently, it can be a bit difficult to debug dial errors because:

  1. We only print the last error.
  2. We don't clearly state what addresses we're trying to dial.

Printing something like,

error: ...
error: ...
dialing [3/N]: /ip4/STUFF...

would make this significantly easier to debug.

see #3933

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Locate the dial function in the codebase, understand the current error handling, and add status messages that print to stderr for each dial attempt and error.
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