Reviewed-by: alanb, mullan, prr

Reviewed-by: alanb, darcy, forax, hawtin, lancea

Summary: Also reviewed by Ulf.Zibis@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, alanb, dholmes

Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb, michaelm

Reviewed-by: xdono

Summary: generify; remove compiler warnings, typos, casts; return status information via gai_strerror when getaddrinfo fails; show full stack of native failures
Reviewed-by: michaelm, alanb

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Summary: runtime type checks and deserialization check
Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb, jccollet