1*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker--- 2*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerc: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al. 3*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerShort: 6 5*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerLong: ipv6 6*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerTags: Versions 7*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerProtocols: 8*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerAdded: 7.10.8 9*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMutexed: ipv4 10*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerRequires: 11*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerHelp: Resolve names to IPv6 addresses 12*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerCategory: connection dns 13*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMulti: mutex 14*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSee-also: 15*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - http1.1 16*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - http2 17*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerExample: 18*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker - --ipv6 $URL 19*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker--- 20*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 21*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker# `--ipv6` 22*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 23*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerUse IPv6 addresses only when resolving hostnames, and not for example try 24*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerIPv4. 25*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker 26*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerYour resolver may respond to an IPv6-only resolve request by returning IPv6 27*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workeraddresses that contain "mapped" IPv4 addresses for compatibility purposes. 28*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkermacOS is known to do this. 29