From 099efadd92fd90527163e26ededfd26db0315dcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laolu32@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:35:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] lncfg: use net.ParseIP to detect IPv6 addresses

---
 lncfg/address.go | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lncfg/address.go b/lncfg/address.go
index 0681be96..9f91552f 100644
--- a/lncfg/address.go
+++ b/lncfg/address.go
@@ -123,8 +123,14 @@ func IsLoopback(addr string) bool {
 
 // isIPv6Host returns true if the host is IPV6 and false otherwise.
 func isIPv6Host(host string) bool {
-	// An IPv4 host without the port shouldn't have a colon.
-	return strings.Contains(host, ":")
+	v6Addr := net.ParseIP(host)
+	if v6Addr == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	// The documentation states that if the IP address is an IPv6 address,
+	// then To4() will return nil.
+	return v6Addr.To4() == nil
 }
 
 // IsUnix returns true if an address describes an Unix socket address.