Commit 5d8324e6 authored by Paul Marks's avatar Paul Marks Committed by Brad Fitzpatrick

net: add hostname warnings to all first(isIPv4) functions.

In general, these functions cannot behave correctly when given a
hostname, because a hostname may represent multiple IP addresses, and
first(isIPv4) chooses at most one.

Updates #9334

Change-Id: Icfb629f84af4d976476385a3071270253c0000b1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/31931Reviewed-by: 's avatarBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
parent 71cf409d
......@@ -533,6 +533,9 @@ func dialSingle(ctx context.Context, dp *dialParam, ra Addr) (c Conn, err error)
// If host is omitted, as in ":8080", Listen listens on all available interfaces
// instead of just the interface with the given host address.
// See Dial for more details about address syntax.
//
// Listening on a hostname is not recommended because this creates a socket
// for at most one of its IP addresses.
func Listen(net, laddr string) (Listener, error) {
addrs, err := DefaultResolver.resolveAddrList(context.Background(), "listen", net, laddr, nil)
if err != nil {
......@@ -560,6 +563,9 @@ func Listen(net, laddr string) (Listener, error) {
// If host is omitted, as in ":8080", ListenPacket listens on all available interfaces
// instead of just the interface with the given host address.
// See Dial for the syntax of laddr.
//
// Listening on a hostname is not recommended because this creates a socket
// for at most one of its IP addresses.
func ListenPacket(net, laddr string) (PacketConn, error) {
addrs, err := DefaultResolver.resolveAddrList(context.Background(), "listen", net, laddr, nil)
if err != nil {
......
......@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ func (a *IPAddr) opAddr() Addr {
// ResolveIPAddr parses addr as an IP address of the form "host" or
// "ipv6-host%zone" and resolves the domain name on the network net,
// which must be "ip", "ip4" or "ip6".
//
// Resolving a hostname is not recommended because this returns at most
// one of its IP addresses.
func ResolveIPAddr(net, addr string) (*IPAddr, error) {
if net == "" { // a hint wildcard for Go 1.0 undocumented behavior
net = "ip"
......
......@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ func (a *TCPAddr) opAddr() Addr {
// "tcp6". A literal address or host name for IPv6 must be enclosed
// in square brackets, as in "[::1]:80", "[ipv6-host]:http" or
// "[ipv6-host%zone]:80".
//
// Resolving a hostname is not recommended because this returns at most
// one of its IP addresses.
func ResolveTCPAddr(net, addr string) (*TCPAddr, error) {
switch net {
case "tcp", "tcp4", "tcp6":
......
......@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ func (a *UDPAddr) opAddr() Addr {
// "udp6". A literal address or host name for IPv6 must be enclosed
// in square brackets, as in "[::1]:80", "[ipv6-host]:http" or
// "[ipv6-host%zone]:80".
//
// Resolving a hostname is not recommended because this returns at most
// one of its IP addresses.
func ResolveUDPAddr(net, addr string) (*UDPAddr, error) {
switch net {
case "udp", "udp4", "udp6":
......
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