diff --git a/confutils/toml/std/net.nim b/confutils/toml/std/net.nim
index e6749e1..be8917c 100644
--- a/confutils/toml/std/net.nim
+++ b/confutils/toml/std/net.nim
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ import
 export
   net, toml_serialization
 
+proc readValue*(r: var TomlReader, val: var IpAddress)
+               {.raises: [SerializationError, IOError, Defect].} =
+  val =  try: parseIpAddress(r.readValue(string))
+         except ValueError as err:
+           r.lex.raiseUnexpectedValue("IP address")
+
 proc readValue*(r: var TomlReader, val: var ValidIpAddress)
                {.raises: [SerializationError, IOError, Defect].} =
   val =  try: ValidIpAddress.init(r.readValue(string))
diff --git a/tests/test_config_file.nim b/tests/test_config_file.nim
index 4422791..e68896d 100644
--- a/tests/test_config_file.nim
+++ b/tests/test_config_file.nim
@@ -90,10 +90,15 @@ type
         name: "rpc-port" }: Port
 
       rpcAddress* {.
-        defaultValue: defaultAdminListenAddress(config)
+        defaultValue: ValidIpAddress.init(defaultAdminListenAddress(config))
         desc: "Address of the server to connect to for RPC - for the validator duties in the pull model"
         name: "rpc-address" }: ValidIpAddress
 
+      restAddress* {.
+        defaultValue: defaultAdminListenAddress(config)
+        desc: "Address of the server to connect to for RPC - for the validator duties in the pull model"
+        name: "rest-address" }: IpAddress
+
       retryDelay* {.
         defaultValue: 10
         desc: "Delay in seconds between retries after unsuccessful attempts to connect to a beacon node"
@@ -127,8 +132,8 @@ func parseCmdArg*(T: type GraffitiBytes, input: string): T
 func completeCmdArg*(T: type GraffitiBytes, input: string): seq[string] =
   @[]
 
-func defaultAdminListenAddress*(conf: TestConf): ValidIpAddress =
-  (static ValidIpAddress.init("127.0.0.1"))
+func defaultAdminListenAddress*(conf: TestConf): IpAddress =
+  (static parseIpAddress("127.0.0.1"))
 
 const
   defaultEth2TcpPort* = 9000
@@ -148,6 +153,12 @@ proc readValue(r: var TomlReader,
   type T = type value
   value = T r.parseAsString()
 
+proc readValue(r: var TomlReader, value: var IpAddress) =
+  try:
+    value = parseIpAddress(r.parseAsString())
+  except ValueError as ex:
+    raise newException(SerializationError, ex.msg)
+
 proc readValue(r: var TomlReader, value: var ValidIpAddress) =
   try:
     value = ValidIpAddress.init(r.parseAsString())
@@ -168,6 +179,9 @@ proc readValue(r: var WinregReader,
   type T = type value
   value = r.readValue(string).T
 
+proc readValue(r: var WinregReader, value: var IpAddress) {.used.} =
+  value = parseIpAddress(r.readValue(string))
+
 proc readValue(r: var WinregReader, value: var ValidIpAddress) {.used.} =
   value = ValidIpAddress.init(r.readValue(string))