Remove [ ] from around IPv6 addresses so whois works on them
This is a quick hack to work around a problem I ran into when using whois for simple IP address lookups. You probably don't want to accept this, but this illustrates the problem.
With the demo config from the docs:
"_": {
"ip": {
"host": "whois.arin.net",
"query": "n + $addr\r\n"
}
}
IPv4 lookups work fine, but IPv6 lookups get this error, for example on 2600:3c00:::
No match found for n + [2600:3c00::].
I found that the IPv6 address was being wrapped in [ and ] which caused the problem, and this quick hack to strip them works.
It would be nicer to omit the [ and ] from the beginning since we don't want them, but I imagine that would break other users of the validators crate.
Perhaps there should be an option to have validators emit IPv6 with no [ and ]? I'd be willing to try to implement that if you think that makes sense.