The effect of the patch can be seen by running `distcc --show-hosts`. Before applying the patch, you will see an error complaining about an IPv6 address in ~/.distcc/zeroconf/hosts (it shouldn't be there and distcc is trying to parse it as a IPv4 address). After applying this patch `distcc --show-hosts` and all other distcc functionality will work fine.
Some additional information:
The effect of the patch can be seen by running `distcc --show-hosts`. Before applying the patch, you will see an error complaining about an IPv6 address in ~/.distcc/ zeroconf/ hosts (it shouldn't be there and distcc is trying to parse it as a IPv4 address). After applying this patch `distcc --show-hosts` and all other distcc functionality will work fine.