[pve-devel] [PATCH cluster] api/join: avoid using an IPv6 address as worker task ID

[Dietmar Maurer]

> On July 30, 2018 at 2:31 PM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> We used the hostname of the node over which we joined a cluster as
> worker ID, which is then encoded in it's task UPID - a unique ID with
> encoded information, separated by colons.
> While this is no problem for normal hostnames, or IPv4 addresses, the
> hostname can also be an IPv6 address - which is also separated by
> colons. This throws of the upid_decode method.

IMHO this is not meant to be an IP address at all - should be always a name
instead.