This is the result from executing the second IPv4/IPv6 server example
shown in socket module documentation on a FreeBSD-7 system.
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/socket.html#example


dhcppc1# cat server.py
# Echo server program
import socket
import sys

HOST = ''                 # Symbolic name meaning the local host
PORT = 50007              # Arbitrary non-privileged port
s = None
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(HOST, PORT, socket.AF_UNSPEC,
socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket.AI_PASSIVE):
    af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
    try:
     s = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
    except socket.error, msg:
     s = None
     continue
    try:
     s.bind(sa)
     s.listen(1)
    except socket.error, msg:
     s.close()
     s = None
     continue
    break
if s is None:
    print 'could not open socket'
    sys.exit(1)
conn, addr = s.accept()
print 'Connected by', addr
while 1:
    data = conn.recv(1024)
    if not data: break
    conn.send(data)
conn.close()

dhcppc1#
dhcppc1# uname -a
FreeBSD dhcppc1# 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #0 Mon Dec 24 12:18:24 UTC 2007
root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC   o386
dhcppc1#
dhcppc1# python2.5 server.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "server.py", line 8 in <module>
     for res in socket.getaddrinfo(HOST, PORT, socket.AF_UNSPEC,
socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket.AI_PASSIVE):
socket.gaierror: (8, 'hostname nor servname provided, or not known')
dhcppc1#