more permissive hostname validation

In particular, allow hostnames without periods (like on a LAN).
This shouldn't be a client compability concern since we allow
vhosts without periods.

irc/config.go

@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ func LoadConfig(filename string) (config *Config, err error) {
 	if config.Server.Name == "" {
 		return nil, ErrServerNameMissing
 	}
-	if !utils.IsHostname(config.Server.Name) {
+	if !utils.IsServerName(config.Server.Name) {
 		return nil, ErrServerNameNotHostname
 	}
 	if config.Datastore.Path == "" {

irc/utils/net.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package utils
 
 import (
 	"net"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 )
 
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@ var (
 	// subnet mask for an ipv6 /128:
 	mask128             = net.CIDRMask(128, 128)
 	IPv4LoopbackAddress = net.ParseIP("127.0.0.1").To16()
+
+	validHostnameLabelRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9A-Za-z.\-]+$`)
 )
 
 // AddrIsLocal returns whether the address is from a trusted local connection (loopback or unix).
@@ -49,12 +52,10 @@ func IPStringToHostname(ipStr string) string {
 	return ipStr
 }
 
-var allowedHostnameChars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890-."
-
 // IsHostname returns whether we consider `name` a valid hostname.
 func IsHostname(name string) bool {
-	// IRC hostnames specifically require a period
+	name = strings.TrimSuffix(name, ".")
-	if !strings.Contains(name, ".") || len(name) < 1 || len(name) > 253 {
+	if len(name) < 1 || len(name) > 253 {
 		return false
 	}
 
@@ -63,11 +64,7 @@ func IsHostname(name string) bool {
 		if len(part) < 1 || len(part) > 63 || strings.HasPrefix(part, "-") || strings.HasSuffix(part, "-") {
 			return false
 		}
-	}
+		if !validHostnameLabelRegexp.MatchString(part) {
-
-	// ensure all chars of hostname are valid
-	for _, char := range strings.Split(strings.ToLower(name), "") {
-		if !strings.Contains(allowedHostnameChars, char) {
 			return false
 		}
 	}
@@ -75,6 +72,12 @@ func IsHostname(name string) bool {
 	return true
 }
 
+// IsServerName returns whether we consider `name` a valid IRC server name.
+func IsServerName(name string) bool {
+	// IRC server names specifically require a period
+	return IsHostname(name) && strings.IndexByte(name, '.') != -1
+}
+
 // Convenience to test whether `ip` is contained in any of `nets`.
 func IPInNets(ip net.IP, nets []net.IPNet) bool {
 	for _, network := range nets {

irc/utils/net_test.go

@@ -24,14 +24,18 @@ var (
 		"gsf.ds342.co.uk",
 		"324.net.uk",
 		"xn--bcher-kva.ch",
+		"pentos",
+		"pentos.",
+		"www.google.com.",
 	}
 
 	badHostnames = []string{
 		"-lol-.net.uk",
 		"-lol.net.uk",
 		"_irc._sctp.lol.net.uk",
-		"irc",
+		"irc.l%l.net.uk",
-		"com",
+		"irc..net.uk",
+		".",
 		"",
 	}
 )
@@ -56,6 +60,15 @@ func TestIsHostname(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestIsServerName(t *testing.T) {
+	if IsServerName("pentos") {
+		t.Error("irc server names must contain a period")
+	}
+	if !IsServerName("darwin.network") {
+		t.Error("failed to validate a perfectly good server name")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestNormalizeToNet(t *testing.T) {
 	a := net.ParseIP("8.8.8.8")
 	b := net.ParseIP("8.8.4.4")