fallback on 127.0.0.1 if localhost cannot be bound

Some (broken) systems cannot bind to localhost.
This handles that failure and falls back to 127 as the default

IPython/html/notebookapp.py

@@ -410,6 +410,19 b' class NotebookApp(BaseIPythonApplication):'
     ip = Unicode('localhost', config=True,
         help="The IP address the notebook server will listen on."
     )
+    def _ip_default(self):
+        """Return localhost if available, 127.0.0.1 otherwise.
+        
+        On some (horribly broken) systems, localhost cannot be bound.
+        """
+        s = socket.socket()
+        try:
+            s.bind(('localhost', 0))
+        except socket.error:
+            return '127.0.0.1'
+        else:
+            s.close()
+            return 'localhost'
 
     def _ip_changed(self, name, old, new):
         if new == u'*': self.ip = u''