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Bun.serve, Bun.listen and Bun.udpSocket (bind and connect) resolve their hostname with a synchronous getaddrinfo in uSockets. A name that cannot be a hostname (a space, a colon, an empty label, a label over 63 bytes) is now answered in-process with the error Bun.connect reports for the same name since #40970: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND <host>, with code, syscall and hostname. The resolver is never asked, so it cannot sit on the query. A well-formed name that fails to resolve still goes through getaddrinfo, and its EAI_* code still comes out as an errno. #37690 and #37707 fix that.
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Updated 2:53 PM PT - Aug 30th, 2026
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Status: ready for review. Reproduced on bun 1.4.1 (Linux) with the script in the Notes: Related, not changed here: #37690 and #37707 carry the real |
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1915-1917: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winValidate hostnames in
UDPSocket::js_connect.
UDPSocket::js_connectbypasses the new validation at Lines 651-658 and passesconnect_hostdirectly toSocket::connect. An invalid dynamic connect hostname can still reach synchronous resolution, block the event loop, and return a different error.Validate
connect_host.as_bytes()before the socket call. Thrownot_a_hostname_erroron failure. Add a regression test for this path.Proposed fix
let str = args[0].to_bun_string(global_this)?; let connect_host = str.to_owned_slice_z(); +if !bun_dns::is_valid_hostname(connect_host.as_bytes()) { + return Err(global_this.throw_value( + crate::dns_jsc::cares_jsc::not_a_hostname_error( + global_this, + connect_host.as_bytes(), + ), + )); +} let connect_port_js = args[1];🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/runtime/server/mod.rs`:
- Around line 3588-3589: Update strip_ipv6_brackets so it removes surrounding
brackets only when the enclosed value is a valid IPv6 literal; leave bracketed
non-IPv6 hostnames unchanged for bun_dns::is_valid_hostname to reject, while
preserving existing handling of valid IPv6 addresses.
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In `@src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs`:
- Around line 1915-1917: Update UDPSocket::js_connect to validate
connect_host.as_bytes() before calling Socket::connect, using the existing
hostname validation and throwing not_a_hostname_error when validation fails; add
a regression test covering an invalid dynamic connect hostname.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it tightens input validation on three user-facing bind APIs (Bun.serve, Bun.listen, Bun.udpSocket) — changing which hostnames are rejected and with what error — a human look at the acceptance boundary would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
strip_ipv6_bracketsrefactor insrc/runtime/server/mod.rsis behavior-preserving (samelen > 2 && [0] == '['guard, same slice range).- Cleanup on the new early returns:
Bun.servecallsSelf::deinit(this)matching the existing failure path; the UDP early returns are covered by the already-armedscopeguardat line ~600. is_valid_hostnameaccepts zone-suffixed IPv6 (fe80::1%lo0) viato_ip_addressstripping%zone, so link-local bind addresses are not newly rejected.- Tests use
port: 0, land in existing per-module files, and assert the full error shape via.toEqual.
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Overview
This PR adds an is_valid_hostname pre-check to the three synchronous bind paths — Bun.serve (src/runtime/server/mod.rs), Bun.listen (src/runtime/socket/Listener.rs), and Bun.udpSocket bind + connect option (src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs) — so a syntactically impossible hostname throws getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND <host> before reaching the blocking getaddrinfo inside uSockets. A shared not_a_hostname_error helper is added in src/runtime/dns_jsc/cares_jsc.rs, and Bun.serve's bracketed-IPv6 stripping is factored into strip_ipv6_brackets and reused for both the validation and the existing Addr::Tcp construction. Eighteen new test cases land in the existing serve-listen.test.ts, socket-dns-error.test.ts, and udp_socket.test.ts files.
Security risks
None identified. The change narrows accepted input rather than widening it, builds the error through the existing system_error_with_syscall_and_hostname helper, and does not touch TLS, auth, or credential handling. No new FFI surface; no new allocation ownership.
Level of scrutiny
Medium-high. The mechanics are small and follow established patterns (same is_valid_hostname predicate Bun.connect already gates on; error construction reuses the existing helper; the UDP early returns sit under an already-armed scopeguard so cleanup is handled; Bun.serve mirrors the existing deinit-then-return ZERO failure shape). But this is a validation tightening on three public APIs, and REVIEW.md calls that out specifically: "When tightening validation, enumerate every legitimate input class and prove each still passes." I checked bracketed IPv6 (explicitly tested), bare IPv6, and zone-suffixed IPv6 (to_ip_address strips %zone before parsing, so it passes), and the PR description itself notes several inputs where is_valid_hostname is looser than glibc — the safe direction. A human should still sign off on the acceptance boundary and the observable error-message change.
Other factors
No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed paths. The bug hunt exited on dry_streak with no findings and no ruled-out candidates. Tests follow repo conventions (existing files, port: 0, .toEqual on the error object shape, test.each matrix, using for cleanup, skipIf(!hasIPv6) for the [::1] case). The strip_ipv6_brackets refactor preserves the original's quirk of not checking the trailing ], so no behavior drift there. The PR description is unusually thorough about what is and is not fixed, and explicitly leaves the well-formed-but-unresolvable errno fixes to already-open PRs.
…an IPv6 literal UDPSocket.jsConnect, the native connect behind node:dgram's socket.connect(), is one more synchronous getaddrinfo. A custom lookup can hand it a raw name, which glibc rejected with a code the caller never read, so the socket was marked connected. It now gets the same is_valid_hostname check. Bun.serve stripped the first and last byte of any hostname that starts with a bracket, so "[foo]" resolved as "foo". The strip now applies only when the inside is an IPv6 literal. Anything else keeps its brackets and fails the hostname check.
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Review follow-ups, in 68ebc35 and 03cfe08:
The #25765 pre-merge warning is expected: the body names that issue only to say this PR does not fix it (#37690 does). |
…t served in-process, non-hostnames rejected before any resolver, AI_ADDRCONFIG loopback retry, dns_sd empty answers are EAI_NONAME, dns_ready wakes the loop; Address::ip(); review fixups (SharedConnection is Drop and dispatch hands it its Rc, HostReceiver<ThisPtr> needs AnyRefCounted, single-pass process_results, borrowed PendingCacheKey, stack hostname buffers, UV_EAI_CANCELED docs, ai_addrlen 0 for address-less entries)
…t served in-process, non-hostnames rejected before any resolver, AI_ADDRCONFIG loopback retry, dns_sd empty answers are EAI_NONAME, dns_ready wakes the loop; Address::ip(); review fixups (SharedConnection is Drop and dispatch hands it its Rc, HostReceiver<ThisPtr> needs AnyRefCounted, single-pass process_results, borrowed PendingCacheKey, stack hostname buffers, UV_EAI_CANCELED docs, ai_addrlen 0 for address-less entries)
Problem
Bun.serve,Bun.listenandBun.udpSocket(bind and connect) resolve their hostname with a synchronousgetaddrinfoin uSockets (packages/bun-usockets/src/bsd.c:1340,:1733,:1818), even for a name that can never be a hostname. Some resolvers never answer such a query, and the call blocks the JS thread (dns: reject names that are not hostnames before any resolver, report empty dns_sd answers as ENOTFOUND #40970 saw this on the connect side).Bun.serve({ hostname: "this is not a hostname" })throwsENOENT: no such file or directory, listen,Bun.listena bareFailed to listen at <host>,Bun.udpSocketbind ENOENT <host>, anddgram'sconnect()reports success.Fix
bun_dns::is_valid_hostnamebefore it calls into uSockets. A rejected name throwsgetaddrinfo ENOTFOUND <host>withcode,syscallandhostname: whatBun.connectreports for it and what Node emits fromserver.listen().Bun.servenow strips brackets only around an IPv6 literal:"[::1]"still binds,"[foo]"no longer resolves asfoo.nxdomain.invalid) still gets the wrong errno. Report an unresolvable listen hostname as a getaddrinfo error #37690 (serve/listen) and udp: report an unresolvable bind hostname as a getaddrinfo error #37707 (udp) fix that. This PR does not touchbsd.cor fix Bun.serve failed to start on localhost subdomain #25765.test/js/bun/http/serve-listen.test.ts,test/js/bun/net/socket-dns-error.test.ts,test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.tsandtest/js/bun/udp/dgram.test.tsfail on 1.4.1 and pass here. Also ran the serve, socket, net and dgram suites.Background
is_valid_hostname(src/dns/lib.rs) accepts an IP literal or an RFC 1035 name (labels of 1 to 63 bytes from the c-ares set, 253 total).dns.lookupbefore it binds, so no name reaches a blocking call.connectpath; the framing is now the resolver skip).Notes
What is and is not shown here:
getaddrinfocall, on the same names, that dns: reject names that are not hostnames before any resolver, report empty dns_sd answers as ENOTFOUND #40970 measured on the connect side (dns.lookupwaiting out the macOS resolver timeout for a label with a space). Linux glibc rejects these names locally, so on Linux the visible change is only the error.something.localhoston macOS) is a well-formed name and is Report an unresolvable listen hostname as a getaddrinfo error #37690's case.Repro on 1.4.1 (Linux, no resolver needed for the first four names):
After this change the first six report
getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND <host>(name: "Error",code: "ENOTFOUND",syscall: "getaddrinfo",hostname).node:net,node:httpandnode:dgram(customlookup) servers emit the same error object fromlisten()/bind().Where the check sits:
Bun.serve: at the top ofNewServer::listen(src/runtime/server/mod.rs), before the uws app is created. The existingdeinitpath frees the server andBun.servethrows synchronously, as it does forEADDRINUSE. The bracket strip now lives in one function,strip_ipv6_brackets, used by the check and by the existingAddrcode. It used to drop the first and last byte of any hostname that starts with[, so[foo]resolved asfoo([localhost],[127.0.0.1]and[example.comwere already rejected by the base URL parse). It now strips only when the inside is an IPv6 literal (to_ip_address, so a%zonestill passes); anything else keeps its brackets and failsis_valid_hostname.Bun.listen(src/runtime/socket/Listener.rs): right afterSocketConfig::from_js, only when a port is set (a unix path or an adopted fd has no hostname).SocketConfig::from_jsitself is shared withBun.connect, whose error is delivered asynchronously, so the check is not placed there.Bun.udpSocket(src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs): bind andconnect.hostnameare both checked right after the config parse, before the socket is created. Bind failures there throw synchronously today, and so does this. Theconnectoption used to report these names asconnect ENOTFOUND <host>(DNSException) from theEAI_*code; a well-formed unresolvableconnect.hostnamestill does, that block is udp: report a failed connect() as the socket error, not a getaddrinfo error #38622's.UDPSocket.jsConnectthatnode:dgram'ssocket.connect()calls gets the same check.dgramresolves withdns.lookupfirst, so only a customlookupcan hand it a raw name. glibc rejected such a name with a codejsConnectnever read (it checks for-1only), so the socket was marked connected with no error. udp: report a failed connect() as the socket error, not a getaddrinfo error #38622 reworks that return-code handling; the check here sits before the call and does not overlap it.The error is built by
not_a_hostname_errorinsrc/runtime/dns_jsc/cares_jsc.rsfromsystem_error_with_syscall_and_hostname, the helperBun.connectuses.For #37690 and #37707: their tests use a 64-byte label, which
is_valid_hostnamerejects, so once this lands that input is answered in-process and no longer exercises thedns_errorplumbing. glibc rejectsa*b.com,a/b.com,-a.comandünicode.comlocally (EAI_NONAME, no query sent) whileis_valid_hostnameaccepts all four. Other platforms need checking in CI.Bun.listen({ hostname: "[::1]" })andBun.udpSocket({ hostname: "[::1]" })never stripped brackets and already fail on 1.4.1 (Failed to listen at [::1],bind ENOENT [::1]). They now fail withgetaddrinfo ENOTFOUND [::1].Suites run on the debug build:
serve-listen.test.ts(37 pass),socket-dns-error.test.ts(11 pass),udp_socket.test.ts(214 pass),dgram.test.ts+udp_socket_recv_flags.test.ts(64 pass),serve.test.ts+serve-http3.test.ts+server-url-invalid.test.ts(349 pass, 2 environment failures: root can bind port 1003, egress proxy),node-net-server.test.ts,serve-epoll-add-fail.test.ts,test/internal/source-lints/(171 pass), nodetest-dgram-bind*,test-dgram-connect*,test-dgram-custom-lookup,test-dgram-error-message-address,test-net-listen-error,test-http-listening.socket.test.tsandnode-net.test.tshave the samelocalhostdual-stack failures on the released bun in this container.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts, test/js/bun/udp/dgram.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/serve-listen.test.ts