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Add documentation for net.server.address() for the case it is listening
on a pipe or unix domain socket instead an IP socket.

PR-URL: #12907
Fixes: #12895
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
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Flarna authored and MylesBorins committed Jul 11, 2017
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Returns the bound address, the address family name, and port of the server
as reported by the operating system.
as reported by the operating system if listening on an IP socket.
Useful to find which port was assigned when getting an OS-assigned address.
Returns an object with `port`, `family`, and `address` properties:
`{ port: 12346, family: 'IPv4', address: '127.0.0.1' }`

For a server listening on a pipe or UNIX domain socket, the name is returned
as a string.

Example:

```js
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