Add IPv6 support

Signed-off-by: Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/Bcfg2/SSLServer.py b/src/lib/Bcfg2/SSLServer.py
index 33707eda8..aef44e419 100644
--- a/src/lib/Bcfg2/SSLServer.py
+++ b/src/lib/Bcfg2/SSLServer.py
@@ -98,14 +98,23 @@ class SSLServer (SocketServer.TCPServer, object):
         timeout -- timeout for non-blocking request handling
 
         """
-
+        # check whether or not we should listen on all interfaces
         if listen_all:
             listen_address = ('', server_address[1])
         else:
             listen_address = (server_address[0], server_address[1])
+
+        # check for IPv6 address
+        if ':' in server_address[0]:
+            self.address_family = socket.AF_INET6
+
         try:
             SocketServer.TCPServer.__init__(self, listen_address,
                                             RequestHandlerClass)
+        except socket.gaierror:
+            e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+            self.logger.error("Failed to bind to socket: %s" % e)
+            raise
         except socket.error:
             self.logger.error("Failed to bind to socket")
             raise