X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fwget.texi;h=3e661a6f38f33fb420fe574656dbd4ee388c7b0a;hp=4f7d2ddf91c3682b5f1161abe74be7c0397235c4;hb=ecdfa5b1bc25386e71d0c5d3e99d3bbebc329e39;hpb=c3bd5412a8a046d0b7113ea692bf6c9333d91be7 diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi index 4f7d2ddf..3e661a6f 100644 --- a/doc/wget.texi +++ b/doc/wget.texi @@ -950,10 +950,10 @@ or to deal with broken network configuration. Only one of 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 @@ -2849,11 +2849,11 @@ Use POST as the method for all HTTP requests and send the contents of @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