diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index c10f91b9..8ece30a9 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.4.6-stable+timestamp.2013.05.03.21.36.38
+Version 2.4.6-stable+timestamp.2013.05.03.21.41.37
diff --git a/gluon/main.py b/gluon/main.py
index b7517131..81169857 100644
--- a/gluon/main.py
+++ b/gluon/main.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ from settings import global_settings
 from validators import CRYPT
 from cache import CacheInRam
 from html import URL, xmlescape
-from utils import is_valid_ip_address
+from utils import is_valid_ip_address, getipaddrinfo
 from rewrite import load, url_in, THREAD_LOCAL as rwthread, \
     try_rewrite_on_error, fixup_missing_path_info
 import newcron
@@ -471,13 +471,11 @@ def wsgibase(environ, responder):
                             local_hosts.add(socket.gethostname())
                             local_hosts.add(fqdn)
                             local_hosts.update([
-                                ip[4][0] for ip in socket.getaddrinfo(
-                                    fqdn, 0)])
+                                ip[4][0] for ip in getipaddrinfo(fqdn)])
                             if env.server_name:
                                 local_hosts.add(env.server_name)
                                 local_hosts.update([
-                                    ip[4][0] for ip in socket.getaddrinfo(
-                                        env.server_name, 0)])
+                                    ip[4][0] for ip in getipaddrinfo(env.server_name)])
                         except (socket.gaierror, TypeError):
                             pass
                     global_settings.local_hosts = list(local_hosts)
diff --git a/gluon/utils.py b/gluon/utils.py
index 79e9fdd2..ce960059 100644
--- a/gluon/utils.py
+++ b/gluon/utils.py
@@ -295,14 +295,28 @@ def is_valid_ip_address(address):
         return True
 
 
-def is_loopback_ip_address(ip):
-    """Determines whether the IP address appears to be a loopback address.
+def is_loopback_ip_address(ip=None, addrinfo=None):
+    """
+    Determines whether the address appears to be a loopback address.
 
     This assumes that the IP is valid.  The IPv6 check is limited to '::1'.
 
     """
+    if addrinfo:    # see socket.getaddrinfo() for layout of addrinfo tuple
+        if addrinfo[0] == socket.AF_NET or addrinfo[0] == socket.AF_INET6:
+            ip = addrinfo[4]
     if not ip:
         return False
-    if ip.count('.') == 3:  # IPv4
+    if isinstance(ip, basestring) and ip.count('.') == 3:  # IPv4
         return ip.startswith('127') or ip.startswith('::ffff:127')
     return ip == '::1'  # IPv6
+
+
+def getipaddrinfo(host):
+    """
+    Filter out non-IP and bad IP addresses from getaddrinfo
+    """
+    return [addrinfo for addrinfo in socket.getaddrinfo(host, None)
+            if (addrinfo[0] == socket.AF_INET or addrinfo[0] == socket.AF_INET6)
+                and isinstance(addrinfo[4][0], basestring)]
+
diff --git a/gluon/widget.py b/gluon/widget.py
index 1eced339..a6cf6ed1 100644
--- a/gluon/widget.py
+++ b/gluon/widget.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import cStringIO
 import time
 import thread
 import threading
-import re
 import os
 import socket
 import signal
@@ -25,10 +24,10 @@ import newcron
 import getpass
 import main
 
-from fileutils import w2p_pack, read_file, write_file, create_welcome_w2p
+from fileutils import read_file, write_file, create_welcome_w2p
 from settings import global_settings
 from shell import run, test
-from utils import is_valid_ip_address, is_loopback_ip_address
+from utils import is_valid_ip_address, is_loopback_ip_address, getipaddrinfo
 
 try:
     import Tkinter
@@ -338,7 +337,6 @@ class web2pyDialog(object):
             self.tb = None
 
     def update_schedulers(self, start=False):
-        x = 0
         apps = []
         available_apps = [arq for arq in os.listdir('applications/')]
         available_apps = [arq for arq in available_apps
@@ -942,8 +940,8 @@ def console():
 
     try:
         options.ips = list(set([
-            ip[4][0] for ip in socket.getaddrinfo(socket.getfqdn(), 0)
-            if not is_loopback_ip_address(ip[4][0])]))
+            addrinfo[4][0] for addrinfo in getipaddrinfo(socket.getfqdn())
+            if not is_loopback_ip_address(addrinfo=addrinfo)]))
     except socket.gaierror:
         options.ips = []