v1.15 upgrade broken ipv6 replication config (ipv6 literals)

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This issue has been migrated from #7695.

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Description

v1.13.x workers config broken after v1.15.0 upgrade. Server dies in mysterious ways.

2020-06-14 23:49:11,767 - synapse.http.client - 283 - INFO - replication-POSITION-27- Sending request GET http://::1:None/_synapse/replication/get_repl_stream_updates/federation/XSBWfTbBUR?from_token=0&upto_token=2
2020-06-14 23:49:11,767 - synapse.http.client - 330 - INFO - replication-POSITION-27- Error sending request to  GET http://::1:None/_synapse/replication/get_repl_stream_updates/federation/XSBWfTbBUR?from_token=0&upto_token=2: URLParseError expected integer for port, not ':1:None'
2020-06-14 23:49:11,768 - synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics - 215 - ERROR - replication-POSITION-27- Background process 'replication-POSITION' threw an exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/hyperlink/_url.py", line 993, in from_text
    port = int(port)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ':1:None'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/synapse/metrics/background_process_metrics.py", line 213, in run
    return (yield result)
hyperlink._url.URLParseError: expected integer for port, not ':1:None'

So far it has been working as:

worker_app: synapse.app.synchrotron
worker_replication_host: '::1'
worker_replication_port: 9092

Apart from it may have require worker_replication_http_port now (not sure though) the …_host is completely broken. I can try various valid combos without success, like

worker_replication_host: '[::1]'

but then it stupidly tries to interpret it as a hostname. I did not find a working solution, so I had to downgrade all connections to ipv4.

Steps to reproduce

• use ipv6 literals in replication
• nothing works

Version information

• Homeserver: grin.hu
• Version: 1.15.0
• Install method: Debian (non NV)
• Platform: debian/buster