diff -r a9d43e21f7d8 Lib/logging/handlers.py
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py	Sat May 19 08:12:00 2012 +0800
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py	Wed May 23 17:38:39 2012 +0400
@@ -605,14 +605,6 @@
         SocketHandler.__init__(self, host, port)
         self.closeOnError = 0
 
-    def makeSocket(self):
-        """
-        The factory method of SocketHandler is here overridden to create
-        a UDP socket (SOCK_DGRAM).
-        """
-        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
-        return s
-
     def send(self, s):
         """
         Send a pickled string to a socket.
@@ -621,9 +613,8 @@
         when the network is busy - UDP does not guarantee delivery and
         can deliver packets out of sequence.
         """
-        if self.sock is None:
-            self.createSocket()
-        self.sock.sendto(s, (self.host, self.port))
+        sock = socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port), sockettype=socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
+        sock.send(s)
 
 class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
     """
diff -r a9d43e21f7d8 Lib/socket.py
--- a/Lib/socket.py	Sat May 19 08:12:00 2012 +0800
+++ b/Lib/socket.py	Wed May 23 17:38:39 2012 +0400
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@
 
         Wait for an incoming connection.  Return a new socket
         representing the connection, and the address of the client.
-        For IP sockets, the address info is a pair (hostaddr, port).
+        For IP sockets, the address info is a pair (hostaddr, port) for IPv4
+        or (hostaddr, port, flowinfo, scopeid) for IPv6.
         """
         fd, addr = self._accept()
         sock = socket(self.family, self.type, self.proto, fileno=fd)
@@ -360,7 +361,7 @@
     from gethostname() is returned.
     """
     name = name.strip()
-    if not name or name == '0.0.0.0':
+    if not name or name == '0.0.0.0' or name == '::':
         name = gethostname()
     try:
         hostname, aliases, ipaddrs = gethostbyaddr(name)
@@ -379,7 +380,8 @@
 _GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = object()
 
 def create_connection(address, timeout=_GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
-                      source_address=None):
+                      source_address=None,
+                      sockettype=SOCK_STREAM):
     """Connect to *address* and return the socket object.
 
     Convenience function.  Connect to *address* (a 2-tuple ``(host,
@@ -392,9 +394,9 @@
     An host of '' or port 0 tells the OS to use the default.
     """
 
-    host, port = address
+    host, port = address[:2]
     err = None
-    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
+    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, sockettype):
         af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
         sock = None
         try: