man5/{hosts,resolver}.5: note that IPv6 addresses are allowed.

The patch in the PR largely no longer applied due to age, but
thanks to Evgeniy Khramtsov for the patches in the PR.

PR:		120024
Reported by:	bcran
Approved by:	blackend (mentor)
Obtained from:	Evgeniy Khramtsov <evgeniy@khramtsov.org> (partly)

(cherry picked from commit a23b08cf98d92ff82adeebc84673e9bd3cd0a6da)

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man5/hosts.5 b/share/man/man5/hosts.5
index d80c544b3644..ca7586f039b7 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/hosts.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/hosts.5
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)hosts.5	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 25, 2013
+.Dd May 25, 2021
 .Dt HOSTS 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -64,9 +64,10 @@ These include addresses for the local interfaces that
 .Xr ifconfig 8
 needs at boot time and a few machines on the local network.
 .Pp
-Network addresses are specified in the conventional
-``.'' (dot) notation using the
-.Xr inet_addr 3
+Network addresses are specified in either the conventional
+``.'' (dot) notation for IPv4 or colon hexadecimal notation for IPv6,
+as understood by the
+.Xr inet_pton 3
 routine
 from the Internet address manipulation library,
 .Xr inet 3 .
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ file resides in
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
+.Xr inet 3 ,
 .Xr nsswitch.conf 5 ,
 .Xr ifconfig 8
 .Rs
diff --git a/share/man/man5/resolver.5 b/share/man/man5/resolver.5
index 21e1f8f99131..468c635839c6 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/resolver.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/resolver.5
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ and the domain search path is constructed from the domain name.
 The different configuration options are:
 .Bl -tag -width nameserver
 .It Sy nameserver
-Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server
+IPv4 or IPv6 address of a name server
 that the resolver should query.
 Up to
 .Dv MAXNS