Integrated: 8373704: Improve "SocketException: Protocol family unavailable" message

Mon Jan 5 08:30:04 UTC 2026

On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:18:11 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> In [JDK-8373676](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8373676)
> we noticed a "SocketException: Protocol family unavailable" because of missing ipv6 support. We could improve this exception and tell that the ipv6 support is not available or something related.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 16303822
Author:    Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/163038222a371c07aff8bce50eee55bb389104d0
Stats:     2 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 2 mod

8373704: Improve "SocketException: Protocol family unavailable" message

Reviewed-by: lucy, jpai

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28851