Give an error for addresses lacking a hostname #408
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This is an alternate solution to #407. (The commit message was tweaked accordingly.) |
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Ok, this adds a more helpful error message, but doesn't solve the problem that Can you write a |
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Oh! Oops, ok, I get it now. Will do. |
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A source or destination address of the form ":1234" is parsed as a hostname of "" which is guaranteed to never work. While we don't want to give special error messages for all possible invalid addresses, this particular case can easily be produced from a broken shell script (with a hostname variable accidentally not set), so it's worth having a special error message. Suggested by: Ross Richardson
We want to check that the addresses are syntactically valid before spiped daemonizes. It's not strictly necessary for spipe, but we might as well check it so that we can produce a usage() if necessary. Suggested by: Ross Richardson
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A source or destination address of the form ":1234" is parsed as a hostname of "" which is guaranteed to never work. While we don't want to give special error messages for all possible invalid addresses, this particular case can easily be produced from a broken shell script (with a hostname variable accidentally not set), so it's worth having a special error message.
Suggested by: Ross Richardson