By doing this we delegate the task of finding the correct address family
to the FormatAddress method.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Franceschini <livewire@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

Signed-off-by: Manuel Franceschini <livewire@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

This patch moves the FormatAddress helper function from daemon.py to
netutils.py. This enables its use in http.client as well as in
rapi.client. Furthermore this adds functionality to format IPv6
addresses according to RFC 3986.

It is required for use of literal IPv6 addresses in URLs in pycurl.
For some reason it worked also without the bracketing ("["<address>"]"),
but we do not want to rely on that.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Franceschini <livewire@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>

This patch enables IPv6 name resolution by using socket.getaddrinfo
instead of socket.gethostbyname_ex.

It renames the HostInfo class to Hostname and unifies its use throughout
the code. This is achieved by using static calls where no object is
needed and removes some obsolete code.

For now, we just resolve to IPv4 addresses, but this will change once it
is needed.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Franceschini <livewire@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

This patch unifies the netutils functions dealing with IP addresses to
three classes:
- IPAddress: Common IP address functionality
- IPv4Address: IPv4 specific functionality
- IPv6address: IPv6-specific functionality

Furthermore it adds methods to check whether an address is a loopback
address, replacing the .startswith("127") for IPv4 and adding IPv6
support.

It also provides the basis for future IPv6 address handling. Methods to
convert IP strings to their corresponding interger values will allow to
canonicalize IPv6 addresses.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Franceschini <livewire@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

Use RFC 5737 IP addresses and RFC 2606 domain names in all
unittests, docs, qa and docstrings.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Franceschini <livewire@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>

This patch moves network utility functions to a dedicated module.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Franceschini <livewire@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>