Doc #74557 [Com]: mysqlnd doesn't support IPv6 literal hostnames

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74557&edit=1 ID: 74557 Comment by: paul at packetship dot com Reported by: paul at packetship dot com Summary: mysqlnd doesn't support IPv6 literal hostnames Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: MySQL related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: master-Git-2017-05-08 (Git) Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Square brackets are only standard in URLs (as per RFC2732), not where hostnames stand alone as in the PDO string. Having to put them in the hostname field is a workround (which could be usefully documented, agreed!). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-05-08 16:22:32] requinix@php.net Putting []s around IPv6 addresses is standard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-05-08 16:08:46] paul at packetship dot com Description: ------------ (tested on PHP 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 but verified from git master source) Attempting to connect to an IPv6 MySQL server using its literal IPv6 address fails unless you put square brackets [ ] around the address in the hostname. Square brackets are required in the URL form if there is a port - e.g. http://[1234:5678::42]:8080/ but are not normally used for hostnames by themselves. Although putting [ ] around the hostname makes it work - e.g. $pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=[1234:5678::42];port=3306;dbname=foo", ...); this is not expected, or documented. The problem arises because the mysqlnd driver reconstructs a stream URL with the hostname and port: transport.l = mnd_sprintf(&transport.s, 0, "tcp://%s:%u", hostname.s, port); ( https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd_connection.c#L581 ) This does not take into account that the hostname could already contain colons in an IPv6 address. The IP address parser ( https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/main/streams/xp_socket.c#L573 ) has code to work this out if there are square brackets around the IPv6 address, but fails otherwise. This is why putting square brackets around the hostname in the PDO string works. The fix would be to check for ':' in the hostname and surround it with [ ] if present - e.g. around mysqlnd_connection.c:L581 if (strchr(hostname.s, ':')) transport.l = mnd_sprintf(&transport.s, 0, "tcp://[%s]:%u", hostname.s, port); else transport.l = mnd_sprintf(&transport.s, 0, "tcp://%s:%u", hostname.s, port); (or something like that, PHP-style C is not my language, I'm afraid!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74557&edit=1