[tor-dev] man: "IPv6 addresses should be wrapped in square brackets"

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Sun Jul 1 01:55:52 UTC 2018


On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:03:50AM +1000, teor wrote:
> When an option only takes an IP address, it does not make a difference.
> (As long as the underlying code uses tor_addr_parse().)

BTW there's currently a bug relating to this: if an address starts with
'[', tor_addr_parse strips the final byte whether or not it is ']'.
https://bugs.torproject.org/23082


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