From 9097b0d7ba6ac0926728a48049b4dcd7ba7c87e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fedor Kovalev <kovalevfm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 13:36:11 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] add ipv6 support

---
 gstatsd/sink.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gstatsd/sink.py b/gstatsd/sink.py
index 8d51a32..cf32927 100644
--- a/gstatsd/sink.py
+++ b/gstatsd/sink.py
@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ class GraphiteSink(Sink):
         for host in self._hosts:
             # flush stats to graphite
             try:
-                sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-                sock.connect(host)
+                sock = socket.create_connection(host)
                 sock.sendall(buf.getvalue())
                 sock.close()
             except Exception, ex: