Enable IPv6 support for the UDP server #988
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We make heavy use of IPv6, and would like to make use of the UDP transport.
This patch does the right thing in most cases. If you give it numeric address, it will certainly do what's expected. If you give it a hostname (and that hostname has both v4 and v6 addresses), then what happens is up to the order in which the resolver returns the addresses.
This is consistent with relevant Python socket library documentation: