🔒 socket.create_connection() is throwing an error when I pass an IPv6

[nocturne halo]

Hello,
I'm trying to make a function that can setup a connection to both IPv4 and IPv6. The function below works as expected when passed an IPv4 string, but when passed an IPv6 string it throws an error: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable. I'm not sure how to fix this because the documentation for socket.create_connection() states "if host is a non-numeric hostname, it will try to resolve it for both AF_INET and AF_INET6, and then try to connect to all possible addresses in turn until a connection succeeds". Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here?

to avoid confusion, this function is nested within another function

example IPv6 string: '2607:f8b0:4006:821::2004'

            raw_socket = socket.create_connection((ip_address, 443))
            raw_socket.settimeout(timeout)

            ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context()
            if not verify_ssl:
                ssl_context.check_hostname = False
                ssl_context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

            ssl_sock = ssl_context.wrap_socket(raw_socket, server_hostname=domain)

            connection = HTTPSConnection(domain, 443)
            connection.sock = ssl_sock

            return connection, ssl_sock```

[sage musk]

@nocturne halo

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[slim orchid]

seems like that means your own network can't actually reach the address you gave it. can you ping that address, for example?

[nocturne halo]

you're totally right

I cannot ping it

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