fix(clients): dial-first reconnect — don't gate the connect on mDNS presence

A saved host that stopped advertising on mDNS but has a learned Wake-on-LAN
MAC was routed into a wake-and-WAIT-for-mDNS flow instead of being dialed. For
a host reached over a routed network (Tailscale/VPN/another subnet) mDNS never
sees it, so the wait could never succeed and reconnects were impossible — the
host log showed no connection attempt at all. The tile's Offline pip and this
connect gate shared the same LAN-only `advertises`/`liveAdvert` predicate, so a
perfectly reachable host read as unreachable. The first connect worked only
because the MAC hadn't been learned yet (a direct dial); once learned, every
reconnect wedged in the waker.

All four full clients carried this pattern (deliberate mirrors of the Apple
`HostWaker`). Each now DIALS FIRST: fire the magic packet up front
(fire-and-forget — harmless if the host is awake, and a genuinely-asleep box is
booting while the dial times out) and attempt the connection unconditionally.
Only a FAILED dial falls into the visible "Waking…" wait, whose redial carries
no fallback so it can't loop. A fingerprint-mismatch/trust-rejection failure
means the host ANSWERED, so it never takes the wake path.

- apple: SessionModel.connect gains `onUnreachable`; startSession dials first.
- linux (relm4): AppMsg::WakeConnect wakes+dials; a per-request wake_fallback
  is armed and consumed in SessionExited, matched by fingerprint/address.
- windows: initiate_waking + ConnectOpts.wake_on_fail; the worker's Failed arm
  escalates to wake_and_connect only on a non-trust failure.
- android: doConnectDirect gains onFailure; doConnect wakes+dials first.

Decky was already correct (always launches `--connect`; WoL fire-and-forget).
Explicit "Wake host" menu actions are unchanged — waiting on mDNS is right when
the user explicitly asked to wake a box.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
//! tiles in a responsive grid, with a per-host "…" menu (connect / speed test / rename /
//! forget) and a manual connect entry — the same card layout as the Linux and Apple clients.
use super::connect::{initiate, wake_and_connect};
use super::connect::{initiate, initiate_waking};
use super::speed::SpeedState;
use super::style::*;
use super::{Screen, Svc, Target};
@@ -390,11 +390,12 @@ pub(crate) fn hosts_page(props: &HostsProps, cx: &mut RenderCx) -> Element {
),
Some(menu),
Some(Box::new(move || {
// Offline saved host with a known MAC: wake it and WAIT for it to reappear on
// the network (re-sending periodically) before dialing — a cold box boots far
// slower than a connect will sit. An online host dials straight away.
// Saved host with a known MAC that isn't advertising: fire a wake packet and
// DIAL IMMEDIATELY — mDNS absence ≠ unreachable (a routed/Tailscale host never
// advertises here); only a failed dial falls into the "Waking…" wait. An
// online host dials straight away.
if can_wake {
wake_and_connect(&ctx2, target.clone(), &ss, &st);
initiate_waking(&ctx2, target.clone(), &ss, &st);
} else {
initiate(&ctx2, target.clone(), &ss, &st);
}