The manual says that (web server)'s 'http can accept an address family like this: (run-server handler 'http '(#:family AF_INET6 #:port 8081)) This doesn't work because AF_INET6 is quoted here. A correct example looks like: (run-server handler 'http `(#:family ,AF_INET6 #:port 8081)) Note that this example currently doesn't work because of another bug (make- default-socket hard-codes PF_INET) which I have reported in another message. I would fix the manual myself but I don't know texinfo. (Question: Did anyone test this example before publishing it, or did something change later? How did an incorrect version of such a simple example sneak in?)