same time. Neither option is available in Wget compiled without IPv6
support.
-@item --prefer-family=IPv4/IPv6/none
+@item --prefer-family=none/IPv4/IPv6
When given a choice of several addresses, connect to the addresses
-with specified address family first. IPv4 addresses are preferred by
-default.
+with specified address family first. The address order returned by
+DNS is used without change by default.
This avoids spurious errors and connect attempts when accessing hosts
that resolve to both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses from IPv4 networks. For
@var{file} in the request body. The same as
@samp{--post-file=@var{file}}.
-@item prefer_family = IPv4/IPv6/none
+@item prefer_family = none/IPv4/IPv6
When given a choice of several addresses, connect to the addresses
-with specified address family first. IPv4 addresses are preferred by
-default. The same as @samp{--prefer-family}, which see for a detailed
-discussion of why this is useful.
+with specified address family first. The address order returned by
+DNS is used without change by default. The same as @samp{--prefer-family},
+which see for a detailed discussion of why this is useful.
@item private_key = @var{file}
Set the private key file to @var{file}. The same as