ICMP on IPv6 with Addresses doesn't really work

[daniel-baumann]

Hi,

IPv6 adresses, unlike IPv4, can have letters (a to f) in them. Currently (5.36.0), it is not really possible to use ICMP with IPv6:

icmp://[2a07:6b44:27:11::ac]
=> gatus starts, but no pings for this endpoint are performed.

icmp://2a07:6b44:27:11::ac
=> gatus refuses to start, interpreting the ac part of the address as a invalid port number

icmp://[2a07:6b44:27:11::21]
=> gatus starts and no pings are performed.

icmp://2a07:6b44:27:11::21
=> gatus starts and pings are performed.

I'm wondering why address handling is a problem, I haven't looked at the code yet, but I would expect that there's a golang module to use that does evertyhing right.

Regards,
Daniel

[daniel-baumann]

Hi,

I've cherry-picked the referenced commit from #1805 and can confirm that this fixes the issue.

Regards,
Daniel