From: Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 20:19:37 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: preferred_family = none
X-Git-Tag: v1.13~421^2~12^2~19
X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ecdfa5b1bc25386e71d0c5d3e99d3bbebc329e39

preferred_family = none
---

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 94b230c0..7da9595e 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-05-17  Steven Schubiger  <stsc@members.fsf.org>
+
+	* wget.texi (Download Options): Change documentation to reflect
+	the new default value for --prefer-family.
+	(Wgetrc Commands): Same, for prefer_family wgetrc command.
+
 2008-05-12  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
 
 	* wget.texi (Download Options): -N with -O downgraded to a
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
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index ad8a67ec..dbc42bd3 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2008-05-17  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
 
+	* init.c (defaults): Set the preferred IP family to `none' by
+	default.
 	* main.c (main): Handle Ctrl-D on command-line.
 
 2008-05-15  Steven Schubiger  <schubiger@gmail.com>
diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
index e811d303..533bb683 100644
--- a/src/init.c
+++ b/src/init.c
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ defaults (void)
   tmp = getenv ("no_proxy");
   if (tmp)
     opt.no_proxy = sepstring (tmp);
+  opt.prefer_family = prefer_none;
   opt.allow_cache = true;
 
   opt.read_timeout = 900;