Invalid IP address while running IPFS.create() command in NodeJS file

[Shreyash1601]

I have made an expressJS server to handle http requests to store and retrieve data from IPFS. Most of the time the swarm connectivity fails and throws an error "not a valid IP address. Please guide me on this. It's an importatnt element of my project

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[achingbrain]

Do you have a minimal reproduction that we can run to see the problem?

[Shreyash1601]

Kindly clone the repository https://github.com/Shreyash1601/IPFS-server.git
Run the following commands
npm install
nodemon ipfs1.js

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[achingbrain]

I have observed something very similar in CI on Windows only, then recently again on Mac OS. It seems the regular expressions used by is-ip may get optimised at runtime to an invalid state.

We've removed is-ip from @multiformats/multiaddr in favour of @chainsafe/is-ip which doesn't use regex.

It's an in-range semver update so could you please try removing any lockfiles and reinstalling the deps?

If it still happens can you please paste the output of npm ls is-ip in your project root?