If using localhost, try to use unix socket SERVER-866

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/client/dbclient.cpp b/client/dbclient.cpp
index db6b4989abe..9bfdb385338 100644
--- a/client/dbclient.cpp
+++ b/client/dbclient.cpp
@@ -465,6 +465,16 @@ namespace mongo {
         server = auto_ptr<SockAddr>(new SockAddr(ip.c_str(), port));
         p = auto_ptr<MessagingPort>(new MessagingPort());
 
+#ifndef _WIN32
+        if (server->getAddr() == "127.0.0.1"){
+            SockAddr _server (makeUnixSockPath(port).c_str(), port);
+            if (p->connect(_server)){
+                *server = _server;
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+#endif
+
         if ( !p->connect(*server) ) {
             stringstream ss;
             ss << "couldn't connect to server " << serverAddress << " " << ip << ":" << port;