[jira] [Commented] (VALIDATOR-307) isValid checks if the given address is only IPV4 address and not IPV6

["Marc Huffnagle (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Marc Huffnagle commented on VALIDATOR-307:
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Right now, isValid does not do DNS name resolution.  The proposed solution (using InetAddress.getByName()) will attempt to resolve a hostname that is given to it.  For example:

InetAddress.getByName("www.example.com")

will be returned as a valid IPv6 address, and will have done a lookup of that hostname.
                
> isValid checks if the given address is only IPV4 address and not IPV6
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>                 Key: VALIDATOR-307
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VALIDATOR-307
>             Project: Commons Validator
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Routines
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0 Release
>            Reporter: Senthil Kumar
>              Labels: ipv6, validation
>             Fix For: 1.4.1
>
>
> function isValid(String inetAddress) checks if the given address is only IPV4 and not IPV6. So the function returns false for a valid IPV6 address. Would it be possible to add IPV6 validation as well?

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