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Support IPv6 in BN and VC HTTP APIs (#3104)

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## Issue Addressed

#3103

## Proposed Changes

Parse `http-address` and `metrics-address` as `IpAddr` for both the beacon node and validator client to support IPv6 addresses.
Also adjusts parsing of CORS origins to allow for IPv6 addresses.

## Usage
You can now set  `http-address` and/or `metrics-address`  flags to IPv6 addresses.
For example, the following:
`lighthouse bn --http --http-address :: --metrics --metrics-address ::1`
will expose the beacon node HTTP server on `[::]` (equivalent of `0.0.0.0` in IPv4) and the metrics HTTP server on `localhost` (the equivalent of `127.0.0.1` in IPv4) 

The beacon node API can then be accessed by:
`curl "http://[server-ipv6-address]:5052/eth/v1/some_endpoint"`

And the metrics server api can be accessed by:
`curl "http://localhost:5054/metrics"` or by `curl "http://[::1]:5054/metrics"`

## Additional Info
On most Linux distributions the `v6only` flag is set to `false` by default (see the section for the `IPV6_V6ONLY` flag in https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/ipv6.7.html) which means IPv4 connections will continue to function on a IPv6 address (providing it is appropriately mapped). This means that even if the Lighthouse API is running on `::` it is also possible to accept IPv4 connections.

However on Windows, this is not the case. The `v6only` flag is set to `true` so binding to `::` will only allow IPv6 connections.
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@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ pub fn get_config<E: EthSpec>(
if let Some(address) = cli_args.value_of("http-address") {
client_config.http_api.listen_addr = address
.parse::<Ipv4Addr>()
.map_err(|_| "http-address is not a valid IPv4 address.")?;
.parse::<IpAddr>()
.map_err(|_| "http-address is not a valid IP address.")?;
}
if let Some(port) = cli_args.value_of("http-port") {
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ pub fn get_config<E: EthSpec>(
if let Some(address) = cli_args.value_of("metrics-address") {
client_config.http_metrics.listen_addr = address
.parse::<Ipv4Addr>()
.map_err(|_| "metrics-address is not a valid IPv4 address.")?;
.parse::<IpAddr>()
.map_err(|_| "metrics-address is not a valid IP address.")?;
}
if let Some(port) = cli_args.value_of("metrics-port") {