public static boolean validateBindAddress(String bindAddress) {
    if (bindAddress == null || bindAddress.length() == 0) {
      return true;
    }
    return validateHost(bindAddress) != null;
  }
Validates the bind address. The address may be a host name or IP address, but it must not be
empty and must be usable for creating an InetAddress. Cannot have a leading '/' (which
InetAddress.toString() produces).

@param bindAddress host name or IP address to validate
geode-core/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/admin/internal/DistributedSystemConfigImpl.java