for _, ip := range ipList {
		apiEndpoints = append(apiEndpoints, getURLScheme(globalIsTLS)+"://"+net.JoinHostPort(ip, globalMinioPort))
	}

	return apiEndpoints
}

// isHostIP - helper for validating if the provided arg is an ip address.
func isHostIP(ipAddress string) bool {
	host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(ipAddress)
	if err != nil {
		host = ipAddress
	}
	// Strip off IPv6 zone information.

		// localhost, example.com, any FQDN cannot be disambiguated from a regular file path such as
		// /mnt/export1. So we go ahead and start the minio server in FS modes in these cases.
		if isHostIP(arg) {
			return ep, fmt.Errorf("invalid URL endpoint format: missing scheme http or https")
		}
		absArg, err := filepath.Abs(arg)
		if err != nil {
			return Endpoint{}, fmt.Errorf("absolute path failed %s", err)