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Problem

  • Bun.serve, Bun.listen and Bun.udpSocket (bind and connect) resolve their hostname with a synchronous getaddrinfo in 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).
  • Its error is also wrong: Bun.serve({ hostname: "this is not a hostname" }) throws ENOENT: no such file or directory, listen, Bun.listen a bare Failed to listen at <host>, Bun.udpSocket bind ENOENT <host>, and dgram's connect() reports success.

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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).
  • Node resolves with dns.lookup before it binds, so no name reaches a blocking call.
  • Self-reviewed: 2 concerns, both addressed (an unchecked udp connect path; the framing is now the resolver skip).
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What is and is not shown here:

Repro on 1.4.1 (Linux, no resolver needed for the first four names):

serve "this is not a hostname" => ENOENT listen "ENOENT: no such file or directory, listen"
listen "this is not a hostname" => (no code) "Failed to listen at this is not a hostname"
udpSocket "this is not a hostname" => ENOENT bind "bind ENOENT this is not a hostname"
udpSocket connect { hostname: "this is not a hostname" } => DNSException "connect ENOTFOUND this is not a hostname"
dgram socket.connect(1234, "this is not a hostname") via a custom lookup => no error, socket marked connected
serve "aaaa...(64).com" => EMSGSIZE listen
serve "nxdomain.invalid" => EAGAIN listen (left to #37690)
udpSocket "nxdomain.invalid" => ESRCH bind (left to #37707)

After this change the first six report getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND <host> (name: "Error", code: "ENOTFOUND", syscall: "getaddrinfo", hostname). node:net, node:http and node:dgram (custom lookup) servers emit the same error object from listen() / bind().

Where the check sits:

  • Bun.serve: at the top of NewServer::listen (src/runtime/server/mod.rs), before the uws app is created. The existing deinit path frees the server and Bun.serve throws synchronously, as it does for EADDRINUSE. The bracket strip now lives in one function, strip_ipv6_brackets, used by the check and by the existing Addr code. It used to drop the first and last byte of any hostname that starts with [, so [foo] resolved as foo ([localhost], [127.0.0.1] and [example.com were already rejected by the base URL parse). It now strips only when the inside is an IPv6 literal (to_ip_address, so a %zone still passes); anything else keeps its brackets and fails is_valid_hostname.
  • Bun.listen (src/runtime/socket/Listener.rs): right after SocketConfig::from_js, only when a port is set (a unix path or an adopted fd has no hostname). SocketConfig::from_js itself is shared with Bun.connect, whose error is delivered asynchronously, so the check is not placed there.
  • Bun.udpSocket (src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs): bind and connect.hostname are both checked right after the config parse, before the socket is created. Bind failures there throw synchronously today, and so does this. The connect option used to report these names as connect ENOTFOUND <host> (DNSException) from the EAI_* code; a well-formed unresolvable connect.hostname still does, that block is udp: report a failed connect() as the socket error, not a getaddrinfo error #38622's.
  • The internal UDPSocket.jsConnect that node:dgram's socket.connect() calls gets the same check. dgram resolves with dns.lookup first, so only a custom lookup can hand it a raw name. glibc rejected such a name with a code jsConnect never read (it checks for -1 only), 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_error in src/runtime/dns_jsc/cares_jsc.rs from system_error_with_syscall_and_hostname, the helper Bun.connect uses.

For #37690 and #37707: their tests use a 64-byte label, which is_valid_hostname rejects, so once this lands that input is answered in-process and no longer exercises the dns_error plumbing. glibc rejects a*b.com, a/b.com, -a.com and ünicode.com locally (EAI_NONAME, no query sent) while is_valid_hostname accepts all four. Other platforms need checking in CI.

Bun.listen({ hostname: "[::1]" }) and Bun.udpSocket({ hostname: "[::1]" }) never stripped brackets and already fail on 1.4.1 (Failed to listen at [::1], bind ENOENT [::1]). They now fail with getaddrinfo 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), node test-dgram-bind*, test-dgram-connect*, test-dgram-custom-lookup, test-dgram-error-message-address, test-net-listen-error, test-http-listening. socket.test.ts and node-net.test.ts have the same localhost dual-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

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

✅ @robobun, your commit 16383c3ecc5697cf96df2da18448be6691406a02 passed in Build #108612! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 40986

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-40986 executable, so you can run:

bun-40986 --bun

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Status: ready for review.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.1 (Linux) with the script in the Notes: Bun.serve({ hostname: "this is not a hostname", port: 0 }) throws ENOENT ... listen, Bun.listen the code-less Failed to listen at ..., Bun.udpSocket bind ENOENT .... The 18 new test cases fail on 1.4.1 and pass with this branch.

Related, not changed here: #37690 and #37707 carry the real getaddrinfo code out of uSockets for well-formed names that do not resolve. Both got a note about their test inputs.

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TCP listeners, servers, and UDP sockets now validate hostnames before socket setup. Invalid values produce synchronous getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND errors. Bracketed IPv6 literals are normalized before binding.

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Hostname validation

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TCP hostname errors and IPv6 normalization
src/runtime/dns_jsc/cares_jsc.rs, src/runtime/server/mod.rs, src/runtime/socket/Listener.rs, test/js/bun/http/serve-listen.test.ts, test/js/bun/net/socket-dns-error.test.ts
TCP APIs validate hostnames and create standard ENOTFOUND errors for invalid values. Bracketed IPv6 literals are normalized before binding. Tests cover HTTP, HTTPS, and Bun.listen.
Socket and UDP hostname validation
src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs, test/js/bun/udp/udp_socket.test.ts, test/js/bun/udp/dgram.test.ts
Socket and UDP APIs validate bind and connect hostnames before setup. Adopted file descriptors bypass bind-host validation. Tests cover invalid inputs and invalid custom lookup results.

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The change rejects malformed hostnames before synchronous resolution and reports consistent ENOTFOUND errors across server, TCP, UDP, and dgram APIs. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs (1)

1915-1917: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate hostnames in UDPSocket::js_connect.

UDPSocket::js_connect bypasses the new validation at Lines 651-658 and passes connect_host directly to Socket::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. Throw not_a_hostname_error on 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];
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In `@src/runtime/socket/udp_socket.rs` around lines 1915 - 1917, Update
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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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- 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
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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_brackets refactor in src/runtime/server/mod.rs is behavior-preserving (same len > 2 && [0] == '[' guard, same slice range).
  • Cleanup on the new early returns: Bun.serve calls Self::deinit(this) matching the existing failure path; the UDP early returns are covered by the already-armed scopeguard at line ~600.
  • is_valid_hostname accepts zone-suffixed IPv6 (fe80::1%lo0) via to_ip_address stripping %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.
Comment thread src/runtime/dns_jsc/cares_jsc.rs Resolved
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Review follow-ups, in 68ebc35 and 03cfe08:

  • UDPSocket.jsConnect (the native connect behind node:dgram's socket.connect()) gets the same is_valid_hostname check. Only a custom lookup can hand it a raw name. Before, glibc rejected such a name with a code the function never read (it checks for -1 only), so the socket was marked connected and the callback got no error. New test in test/js/bun/udp/dgram.test.ts, fails on 1.4.1.
  • strip_ipv6_brackets now strips only when the inside is an IPv6 literal (to_ip_address, so a %zone still passes). [foo] used to resolve as foo and now fails with getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND [foo]. [localhost], [127.0.0.1] and [example.com were already rejected by the base URL parse on 1.4.1, so that part of the finding did not reach this code. New [not-an-ipv6] case in serve-listen.test.ts.
  • The three flagged comments are one line or gone.

The #25765 pre-merge warning is expected: the body names that issue only to say this PR does not fix it (#37690 does).

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 31, 2026
…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)
Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…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)
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