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| -rw-r--r-- | paramiko/client.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/paramiko/client.py b/paramiko/client.py index 7870ea9f..52038bc3 100644 --- a/paramiko/client.py +++ b/paramiko/client.py @@ -273,7 +273,10 @@ class SSHClient (object): establishing an SSH session @raise socket.error: if a socket error occurred while connecting """ - sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) + if len(hostname.split(':')) > 1: + sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_STREAM) + else: + sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) if timeout is not None: try: sock.settimeout(timeout) |