IPv6 Support

[trisys3]

Is there IPv6 support for Mongoose? I couldn't find anything one way or the other on Google or in any of Mongoose's documentation, but from coding myself it doesn't seem like it. For example, when I run mongod --bind_ip [IPv6-enabled host] --ipv6, then run my application, mongoose can't connect to the host, but when I start the server without --ipv6 then run my application, mongoose connects.

If there isn't support, is there a timeframe on when it will be added? This isn't urgent for my application, I'm just worried about the future as more networks become IPv6-only.

[vkarpov15]

I'm actually not sure, I haven't tried. I think this would have to go into the mongodb node driver though, not mongoose.

[trisys3]

Good point. When I get a chance, which may be soon or far away, I will put this same issue there. I'm more annoyed by it than anything right now, it's not critical.

[vkarpov15]

So node driver supports ipv6, but mongoose mistakenly occludes this functionality because muri can't parse ipv6 addresses. You would have to pass hostnames manually. The below will work:

mongoose.connect('::1', 'testdb', 27017, function(err) {
  console.log('Mongoose connection: ' + err);
});

But the below will not as of 3.8.25:

// Throws error: "Invalid mongodb uri. Missing hostname"
mongoose.connect('mongodb://[::1]:27017/testdb');