Winsock control state 6...what is it? and what causes it?

What is the 6 state?

Winsock state 6 means that it's in the process of establishing a connection.

sckClosed 0 (Default) Closed
sckOpen 1 Open
sckListening 2 Listening
sckConnectionPending 3 Connection pending
sckResolvingHost 4 Resolving host
sckHostResolved 5 Host resolved
sckConnecting 6 Connecting
sckConnected 7 Connected
sckClosing 8 Peer is closing the connection
sckError 9 Error