Description of problem: Whene supplying broker address as IPv6 literal (ex. [IPv6]) the qpid-cluster fails to connect. It's probably tries to resolve literal as domain name. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qpid-tools-0.12-2.el6.noarch python-qpid-0.14-1.el6.noarch python-qpid-qmf-0.14-3.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. start up cluster with --cluster-url with IPv6 able broker (ex. amqp:tcp:[IPv6]) 2. run qpid-cluster -C 127.0.0.1 3. observe that qpid-cluster fails Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/qpid-cluster", line 311, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/qpid-cluster", line 302, in main raise Exception("Failed: %s - %s" % (e.__class__.__name__, e)) Exception: Failed: Exception - Invalid URL 2 Expected results: qpid-cluster lists active connections Additional info: