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

[grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM, nusenu <nusenu-lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> tor's man page for OutboundBindAddress* options say:
>
>> IPv6 addresses should be wrapped in square brackets
>
> since it does not throw an error without square brackets:
> does it make any difference?
>
> Previously I forgot the square brackets when generating torrc
> files with relayor and I would like to document the impact
> of my bug (if there is any).

I posting somewhere about normalizing IPv6 address format,
it might have listed the RFC, for which the man page and code was
probably inconsistant. Similar to how fingerprints are a mess.
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