On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:23:39AM +0200, Brane F. Gra??nar wrote: > On Wednesday 15 of June 2011 09:12:00 Willy Tarreau wrote: > > The server address syntax is : > > > > server <name> <ip>:<port> > > > > So you should have a colon and not a space before '80' : > > > > 3ffe:ffff:21da:7:3c06:7c4c:8215:2:80 > > > > Note that the syntax is non-ambiguous because the last colon is mandatory > > before the port, so anything which is before the last colon is the address > > > Willy, i have a suggestion; what if server declaration would be changed to: > > server [<ip_address>]:<port> > server [host.example.com]:port > > That would be new, "preferred" format, while "old" one would be supported, > but > deprecated. > > I think it would be trivial to implement and configuration would be much more > readable. > > The same with logs. > > What do you think?
We could support both. There is no reason to have a different address format in servers and not on bind, source or dispatch lines. But on the other hand, I'd hate to have to use "[::]:80" on a bind line. The persons who proposed the use of the colon as the IPv6 address delimitor really did a mess, we don't need to make it even worse by making it mandatory to add brackets. Regards, Willy
