MySQL Bugs: #69720: WB cannot connect using IPv6 addresses

Bug #69720	WB cannot connect using IPv6 addresses
Submitted:	10 Jul 2013 23:42	Modified:	12 Jul 2013 20:07
Reporter:	Todd Farmer (OCA)	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: Administration	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	6.0.3	OS:	Windows
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

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Description:
My local 5.6 installation is bound to only the IPv6 interface.  Using "localhost" causes WB to choose the IPv4 interface, and in WB 5.2, this could be worked around by using a hostname of ::1.  This no longer works in WB 6.0 - I get the following error:

Your connection attempt failed for user 'root' from your host to server at ::1:3308:  Unknown MySQL server host ':' (0)

How to repeat:
Try connecting to an IPv6-bound MySQL Server instance from WB 6.0.

Suggested fix:
Fix IPv6 address handling.

Turns out this was previously reported as bug #68536