When setting up fred-client the usual procedure for installing it works as expected. But when calling it it gives this error: ERROR: getaddrinfo() socket.error [9] servname not supported for ai_socktype The solution is to modify fred-client.conf so the socket type is forced, as shown here ;; Force socket type. Valid value is: IPv4 or IPv6. ;; Default is to use server's socket type. ;socket = IPv6 socket = IPv4 Mario