twitch stream crashes at startup

[hobbldygoop]

Since today livestreamer can't start twitch streams anymore for me.

It crashes with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/livestreamer", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('livestreamer==1.12.0', 'console_scripts', 'livestreamer')()
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer_cli/main.py", line 886, in main
    handle_url()
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer_cli/main.py", line 491, in handle_url
    handle_stream(plugin, streams, stream_name)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer_cli/main.py", line 374, in handle_stream
    return output_stream_http(plugin, streams)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer_cli/main.py", line 135, in output_stream_http
    filename=server.url,
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer_cli/utils/http_server.py", line 49, in url
    return next(self.urls, None)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer_cli/utils/http_server.py", line 44, in urls
    for addr in self.addresses:
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer_cli/utils/http_server.py", line 36, in addresses
    socket.AF_INET):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known

when I start with livestreamer --player-continuous-http http://twitch.tv/channelname
OS is Mac OSX 10.9
I just wrapped a try-catch over getaddrinfo() to temporarliy make it work for me. I guess it's caused by something with my network config maybe, not sure. But I don't think it's necessary to completely fail here when you can just listen on localhost.