From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Doug Evans" <dje@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] util/qemu-sockets.c: Split host:port parsing out of inet_parse
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:15:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfb7l26q.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210228213957.xkc4cceh5o6rgd5n@begin> (Samuel Thibault's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:39:57 +0100")
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Daniel P. Berrangé, le lun. 22 févr. 2021 09:39:41 +0000, a ecrit:
>> In general callers shouldn't care about which format was parsed. The use
>> of [] is just a mechanism to reliably separate the port from the address.
>> Once you have the address part getaddrinfo() will reliably parse the
>> address into a sockaddr struct on its own.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> The is_v6 flag is only needed
>> for the legacy compat needs in slirp, even that is only if we want to
>> have strict equivalence with historical behaviour, as opposed to changing
>> empty string to mean to listen on both IPv4+6 concurrently..
>
> I would say that empty address meaning ipv4+6 looks better to me.
>
> Doug Evans, le lun. 22 févr. 2021 09:55:09 -0800, a ecrit:
>> Hi guys. I think before I submit yet another patchset in this series I need
>> someone with authority to define the user API for ipv6 host forwarding.
>> Since the hostfwd syntax is parsed in net/slirp.c, Samuel I think that means
>> you (based on what I'm reading in MAINTAINERS).
>
> Well, I'm not maintainer of the user API actually. That'd rather be
> Markus Armbruster, now Cc-ed, who devises the command-line options,
> QAPI, etc.
I rarely devise, I just try to keep things sane by reviewing and
advising, with the help of others.
>> Based on what Maxim originally wrote I was going with addresses wrapped in []
>> mean ipv6, but Daniel does not want that.
>
> Specifying [127.0.0.1] would be odd, but for instance
>
> ssh localhost -D '[127.0.0.1]':23456
>
> happens to listen on 127.0.0.1. So I would say that common practice
> really is that [] only matters for syntax, and not semantic.
I believe common syntactic practice is to use [brackets] only around
numeric IPv6 addresses. E.g. socat(1):
IP address
An IPv4 address in numbers-and-dots notation, an IPv6 address in
hex notation enclosed in brackets, or a hostname that resolves
to an IPv4 or an IPv6 address.
Examples: 127.0.0.1, [::1], www.dest-unreach.org, dns1
[...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-01 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-18 20:15 [PATCH v4 0/4] Add support for ipv6 host forwarding Doug Evans via
2021-02-18 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] slirp: Advance libslirp submodule to add ipv6 host-forward support Doug Evans via
2021-02-19 9:38 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-19 21:43 ` Doug Evans
2021-02-18 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] util/qemu-sockets.c: Split host:port parsing out of inet_parse Doug Evans via
2021-02-19 10:00 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-19 22:17 ` Doug Evans
2021-02-22 9:39 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-23 18:23 ` Doug Evans
2021-02-28 21:39 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-02-28 22:20 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-01 8:15 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2021-03-01 8:31 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-01 16:07 ` Doug Evans
2021-03-01 16:26 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-01 20:39 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-01 16:23 ` Doug Evans
2021-03-01 16:27 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-01 21:05 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-03 18:06 ` Doug Evans
2021-03-03 18:11 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-03-05 21:28 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-05 21:51 ` Doug Evans
2021-03-05 22:21 ` Doug Evans
2021-03-06 0:05 ` Doug Evans
2021-03-06 0:10 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-06 1:00 ` Doug Evans
2021-03-06 19:29 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-03-14 19:52 ` Doug Evans
2021-02-18 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] net/slirp.c: Refactor address parsing Doug Evans via
2021-02-18 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] net: Extend host forwarding to support IPv6 Doug Evans via
2021-02-18 20:34 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Add support for ipv6 host forwarding no-reply
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