Address family not supported by protocol using Apache HttpClient 4.5.x

I have a small application used to Test connectivity over https. I am using the Apache HttpClient 4.5 to create a HttpClient and invoking a HttpGet call. This works fine for IPv4 but when I try to connect to IPv6 this is failing with the below exception. As far as I know IPv6 must be handeled by Java.

    2023-10-05T12:04:38.906Z java.net.SocketException: Address family not supported by protocol
    2023-10-05T12:04:38.906Z at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.906Z at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:579)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:568)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.connect(NioSocketImpl.java:588)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at java.base/java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:327)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at java.base/java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:633)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:368)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:142)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:376)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.907Z at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:393)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:236)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:186)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:83)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:108)
2023-10-05T12:04:38.908Z at com.ibm.proxy.util.Connection.doTestConnection(Connection.java:123)
The TestConnection method 

`    private boolean doTestConnection(String host, ProtocolPojo protocol) {
        boolean connected = false;
        String serverURL = "https://" + host;
        HttpGet getMethodProxyRequest = new HttpGet(serverURL);
        HttpClientBuilder clientBuilder = HttpClients.custom();

        CloseableHttpClient httpClient = clientBuilder
                .setSSLSocketFactory(protocol.getSecureProtocolSocketFactory())
                .build();
        CloseableHttpResponse proxyResponse = null;
        try {
            RequestConfig reqConf = RequestConfig.custom()
                    .setLocalAddress(InetAddress.getLocalHost())
                    .setAuthenticationEnabled(false).setRedirectsEnabled(false)
                    .setConnectTimeout(10000).setSocketTimeout(15000).build();
            getMethodProxyRequest.setConfig(reqConf);
            proxyResponse = httpClient.execute(getMethodProxyRequest);
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            logException(e);
            logMsgInfo(
                    "Proxy: not able to resolve localhost: " + e.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            logException(e);
        } finally {
            if (proxyResponse != null
                    && proxyResponse.getStatusLine() != null) {
                logMsgInfo(
                        "Proxy: " + proxyResponse.getStatusLine().toString());
                logMsgInfo("Proxy: "
                        + proxyResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
                connected = (proxyResponse.getStatusLine()
                        .getStatusCode() == 200);
            }
            try {
                httpClient.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                logException(e);
            }
        }
        return connected;
    }
`

ProtocolPojo class

public class ProtocolPojo {

    private String schema;
    private int port;
    private StrictSSLProtocolSocketFactory secureProtocolSocketFactory;

    public ASMProtocol(String schema,
            StrictSSLProtocolSocketFactory secureProtocolSocketFactory,
            int port) {
        this.schema = schema;
        this.port = port;
        this.secureProtocolSocketFactory = secureProtocolSocketFactory;
    }

    public String getSchema() {
        return schema;
    }

    public int getPort() {
        return port;
    }
    
    /**
     * org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory - that 
     * can be used to verify the host certificate that is 
     * recived.
     */
    public SSLConnectionSocketFactory getSecureProtocolSocketFactory() {
        return secureProtocolSocketFactory.getSSLConnectionSocketFactory();
    }

}

I have checked the IPv6 manually using a web browser, and I see its working fine. I see the issue seems to be inside Apache HttpClient 4.5 is there way to handle this exception. Is this an issue with environment.