Intermittent SSL errors pushing and pulling code

For about a year, I've had a problem where git push and git pull from dev.azure.com would intermittently fail with an error like this:

~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443

And then I'd have to re-try, sometimes about a dozen times.

~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443
~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443
~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443
~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443
~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443
~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443
~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443
~#@❯ git pull                                                                                               ❮  
fatal: unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/dsschnau/_git/codecodecode/': OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection was reset in connection to dev.azure.com:443

But eventually it would work.

~#@❯ git pull                                                                                              ❮   1
Already up to date.

I searched the web and found a StackOverflow question that suggested a workaround: add a HOSTS file entry to force dev.azure.com to use an ipv4 address. That suggests the intermittent error has to do with ipv6.

I added this entry, and now my console pushes and pulls without SSL failures.

echo "13.107.42.20 dev.azure.com" > C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/HOSTS