ARES_SET_LOCAL_IP6(3)

💖 NAME 💖

ares_set_local_ip6 — bestie, this one sets the local IPv6 address for your outgoing requests. It's giving "I choose my own outbound interface" energy. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <ares.h>

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so, ares_set_local_ip6 sets the IPv6 address that your outbound IPv6 requests are gonna use. Main character behaviour, fr fr. 💅

The local_ip6 parameter is specified in network byte order — do not come in here with your host byte order, that's not the vibe. 😭

The way this is actually iconic is on multi-homed systems 🌈, because it lets you pick which outbound interface your traffic goes out of. You're literally choosing your own adventure. No cap.

Heads up bestie: the local_ip6 argument must be 16 bytes in length. Sixteen. Not 15, not 17, we don't do that here. 💀

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• ares_set_local_ip4(3) — the IPv4 sibling, your girl's other half 🫶

⭐ NOTES ⭐

Not me pulling up the receipts — this function was added in c-ares 1.7.4. Oldie but a goodie, she's been serving since forever. 👑

Okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 This little baddie comes to you courtesy of the c-ares library, dated 30 June 2010 — yes, she's a 2010s icon and she still slays. Mwah, go forth and set your local IPv6 address, bestie. 🎀✨