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IPv6 not supported

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
62/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python, shell

Research direction

The failure comes from server.py when ./setup.sh --host ::1 is passed, so start with how server.py parses --host and creates its listening socket. Reproduce with the command in the issue to get the same 'Address family ... not supported' error. Done means the server starts and accepts connections when given an IPv6 literal such as ::1, while IPv4 hosts still work.

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Description

Dear,

It looks like Strata doesn't support IPv6 :

./setup.sh --host ::1

server.py: error: cannot listen on ::1:8080: Address family for hostname not supported [-9]. check --host and --port

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