INSTALL                   |  3 ++-
 lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm | 21 ++++++++++++++-------

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a89c8907e4552737366d382df972f4f5b3d318ce..ce2f8c9161afc21c552f9ddb78d35dc24039a33d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@   - Socket6                    deb: libsocket6-perl
                                rpm: perl-Socket6
                                (pulled in by SpamAssassin and Net::Server,
                                 only necessary if using IPv6 with
-                                Plack::Middleware::AccessLog or similar)
+                                Plack::Middleware::AccessLog or similar
+                                on Perl <= 5.12)
 
 On Fedora systems, you'll probably also end up wanting
 perl-Test-HTTP-Server-Simple, perl-Devel-Peek, and perl-IPC-Run to run the
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
index 033dd98ae4bc22abaf156c603e16ac9b0febfe44..48051f488b6c5bbd08408c291794cc9a041a9c86 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
@@ -236,16 +236,23 @@ }
 
 sub unpack_ipv6 ($) {
 	my ($addr) = @_;
+	my ($port, $host);
 
-	# TODO: support IO::Socket::IP which comes with Perl 5.24
-	# (perl-modules-5.24 in Debian)
+	# Socket.pm in Perl 5.14+ supports IPv6:
+	eval {
+		($port, $host) = Socket::unpack_sockaddr_in6($addr);
+		$host = Socket::inet_ntop(Socket::AF_INET6(), $host);
+	};
 
-	# SpamAssassin and Net::Server use Socket6, so it may be installed
-	# on our system, already (otherwise die):
-	require Socket6;
+	if ($@) {
+		# Perl 5.12 or earlier?  SpamAssassin and Net::Server use
+		# Socket6, so it may be installed on our system, already
+		# (otherwise die here):
+		require Socket6;
 
-	my ($port, $host) = Socket6::unpack_sockaddr_in6($addr);
-	$host = Socket6::inet_ntop(Socket6::AF_INET6(), $host);
+		($port, $host) = Socket6::unpack_sockaddr_in6($addr);
+		$host = Socket6::inet_ntop(Socket6::AF_INET6(), $host);
+	}
 	($host, $port);
 }