[COUCHDB-1512] Provide proper error if a hostname (and not an ip) is used for bind_address

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3
• Assignee: Dave Cottlehuber
• Reporter: Andrew Melo
• Created: 11/Jul/12 00:50
• Updated: 30/Jul/12 11:47
• Resolved: 30/Jul/12 11:47

Description

Currently, couch throws an opaque error message and doesn't bind the tcp port, but the process doesn't die, so it's unclear what's happening. Preferably, couch should raise an informative error message and die if an invalid bind_address is passed