The stricter parser broke localhost:5000, *:5000, and values with surrounding whitespace that the old int() parsing accepted. parse_listen_address now strips the value and accepts RFC 1123 hostnames and *, still rebuilding the rendered value from the parsed parts. The ListenConfig validator runs in before mode, because pydantic coerced true to port 1 while get_nginx_settings.py rejected it and fell back to 5000, so the auth internal port and nginx disagreed.