Support for IPv6 in RFC compliant format

[Dragonsangel]

Heya, we are looking into migrating from our redis cluster to another RESP server and are currently considering Valkey.

Our main issue currently with redis is that the formating of IPv6 communications are not in an RFC compliant format and such a couple of clients are having issues with our cluster.

What the actual issue is, is described in this redis issue. The issue has gone unanswered for 6 years so far.

Could someone clarify if Valkey has made changes to the server codebase to format the IPv6 addresses correctly?

[madolson]

Could someone clarify if Valkey has made changes to the server codebase to format the IPv6 addresses correctly?

No, we still use the old format. It should be OK to handle it on the client though, if you assume the response is valid it should be possible to extract the port. I talk a bit about it here: #2578. If there are any clients that don't work correctly, I think we can test and fix them.

[madolson]

We updated the documentation to be clear about how to parse it. We don't intend to change the actual format at this time since it would require a lot of changes.