If you want to work with a complete socket address type including port, we have a helper in SocketAddress. However, the moment you want to talk only about an IP address we force you to hold an in_addr or in_addr6 structure: hardly the friendliest versions of these data types.

We should provide a helpful wrapper IPAddress type that can be converted into those types as needed. This would

Feature request

The asynchronous functionality of parallel-ssh is very much appreciated for management tasks. Thank you for this!

For the feature request:

It seems that the open_session() can keep worker allocated for much longer than expected in failure cases. Would it be reasonable to stretch the timeout option of wait_socket() to open_session() ?