Android development FAIL

After installing the Android 1.5r3 SDK and Eclipse 3.4 with the matching ADT plugin, I soon encountered this error message:

[2009-10-16 15:02:09 - ddms]Failed to reopen debug port for Selected Client to: 8700
[2009-10-16 15:02:09 - ddms]Address family not supported by protocol family: bind
java.net.SocketException: Address family not supported by protocol family: bind
	at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method)
	at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
	at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(Unknown Source)
	at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(Unknown Source)
	at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.reopenDebugSelectedPort(Unknown Source)
	at com.android.ddmlib.MonitorThread.run(Unknown Source)

[2009-10-16 16:29:40 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8600 for debugger
[2009-10-16 16:30:14 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8601 for debugger
[2009-10-16 16:30:14 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8602 for debugger
[2009-10-16 16:30:15 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8603 for debugger
[2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8602 for debugger
[2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8606 for debugger
[2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8607 for debugger
[2009-10-16 16:30:25 - ddms]Can't bind to local 8610 for debugger

As it turns out, the debugger tries to connect to “localhost” which is resolved by Windows Vista via the Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file, which contains the IPV6 address “::1″. Since Android’s IPv6 support is still under development, none of the development tools can cope with it, resulting in above error messages.

Substituting the IPv4 127.0.0.1 as localhost address made it work fine.

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