On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:57:09PM +0200, Mildis wrote: > >And regarding "2001:db8::1234", you can't forbit it simply because you > >don't know if 1234 is a port or not in this context, as you have > >reported. > > Sure. In this very specific case 1234 can???t be a port as 2001:db8:: is > then a subnet. > Is a subnet a valid entry in this context ?
It must not be our problem. The address parser is used to parse addresses. If someone finds a good use for a subnet, we'd rather not have to re-change the parser just because at one point we decided to make it too restrictive. Thanks, Willy

