Thank you. This will unfortunately break a lot of things. Building the correct [host]:port is one thing, but there's a myriad of places where we assume the format is host:port and not [host]:port.

It is very unfortunate, indeed, but the change to ipv6 would need to be massive.

Hi @mialinx, I see you keep pushing changes. Would you like to perhaps explain what you are doing? Like I wrote earlier, there's a LOT to change if we want to go ipv6 that it's difficult to even find where to begin with.

Hi @shlomi-noach,

Yep, I'm trying to find all suspicious places like using ':', ":", "%s:" in the code, check if they are related to hostname, port handling and replace them with IPv6 aware code.

As far as I understood, there are two main points:

• Check that all services may be conneсted using IPv6 addr. I have tested using IPv6 for specifing backend MySQL database, RAFT nodes, Zookeper store, and discovering mysql clusters (even @@hostname and show slave hosts are IPv6 addrs). And it works to me.
• Using host:port as identifier for comparing instances. I think it should also work if we carefully change all occurrences of host:port. Anyway for IPv4 and hostnames identifiers should stay the same.

It's very likely that I missed somtheing :( What other difficulties do you see ?

Your changes are thorough, indeed. What concerns me are all the places where we parse host:port. I'm yet to consider all the cases, my focus right now is on a few other high priority issues. Meanwhile I applaud you for this undertaking.

It seems that integration tests flap as they depened on map keys order:
#785

@mialinx thanks for your work!
The only reason we don't use orchestrator is IPv6 related issues like this: #616
I hope this PR will be approved.

I completely dropped the ball on this PR. It'll take me time to re0review it.

could you please take a look at this PR?

We really really need this PR. Please take a look 🙏

I apologize for not giving this attention. I very much appreciate the contribution and your work. It'll take a while before I've fully reviewed this. I'll meanwhile send for production testing in staging environment.