ares_set_local_ip6 - Man Page

Set local IPv6 address outgoing requests.

Synopsis

#include <ares.h>

void ares_set_local_ip6(ares_channel_t *channel, const unsigned char* local_ip6)

Description

The ares_set_local_ip6 function sets the IPv6 address for outbound IPv6 requests.  The parameter local_ip6 is specified in network byte order. This allows users to specify outbound interfaces when used on multi-homed systems.  The local_ip6 argument must be 16 bytes in length.

See Also

ares_set_local_ip4(3)

Notes

This function was added in c-ares 1.7.4

Author

Ben Greear

Referenced By

ares_set_local_dev(3), ares_set_local_ip4(3).

30 June 2010