feat: avoid duplicate autoconnection attempt #10506

Job	Run time
markdown_lint	4s
Typos Check	3s
Lints and doc tests on ubuntu-latest	10m 57s
Lints and doc tests on windows-latest	16m 16s
Lints and doc tests on macos-13	15m 13s
Lints and doc tests on macos-14	7m 55s
Unit tests on ubuntu-latest	22m 48s
Unit tests on windows-latest	31m 54s
Unit tests on macos-13	14m 7s
Unit tests on macos-14	14m 29s
Memory leak checks	2m 46s
CI status checks	1s
	2h 16m 33s

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