IPv[46] parsing

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CAJ6ZYQwjqhjpcXEV9ef2-cX4B3MdcgCSKL15EZOkpZR=zbYP=Q at mail.gmail.com>
, Guillaume Quintard writes:

>I'm in favor of mandatory brackets for IPv6, but would this do ?
>- first char is [: it's IPv6
>- if you find a letter or colon: it's IPv6

Remember that it is not just numeric formats.

In general this is about what we pass to the two fields of getaddrinfo(3),
we don't convert to IP#s ourselves.

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