The failpoint "networkInterfaceSendRequestsToTargetHostsInAlphabeticalOrder" currently sorts request.target after request has already been moved into cmdState. So at that point, it is sorting request.target and not cmdState->requestOnAny.target. In the case where request.target is not sorted in the beginning, the connection attached to the requestState will be different from the connection to the host attached to the state. That leads to incorrect behaviors including causing _killOperations to be sent to the wrong node (since the flag fulfilledPromise can be set on the wrong requestState).