Support resolving "localhost" to IPv6

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    • Type: Improvement
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    • Priority: Major - P3
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      In PYTHON-356, pymongo was changed to never resolve "localhost" to IPv6 to avoid slow connection failures on Windows. This behavior is not intuitive and leads to bugs like this:
      https://github.com/rueckstiess/mtools/issues/798

      We should investigate if there is a way for pymongo to resolve "localhost" to IPv6 while avoiding slow connection failures on Windows.

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            Reporter:
            Shane Harvey
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