diff --git a/ares/ares_strerror.3 b/ares/ares_strerror.3
index 254d793cb73afae7f0364f9b5813f2cb9a792491..1d88b881584678b60b142d4069b201edb4cb0e80 100644
--- a/ares/ares_strerror.3
+++ b/ares/ares_strerror.3
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ The
 function gets the description of the ares library error code
 .IR code ,
 returning the result as a NUL-terminated C string.
+.SH NOTES
+This function is not compatible with ares.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
 .br
diff --git a/ares/ares_version.3 b/ares/ares_version.3
index 7aeabf7e0d7624222aa1482ad6ac2d190584eefb..ec9c17991160b45c5a11e6f9910c45c25bcde6d0 100644
--- a/ares/ares_version.3
+++ b/ares/ares_version.3
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ argument. If you pass a NULL, no integer is attempted to be returned.
 The integer is built up as 24bit number, with 8 separate bits used for major
 number, minor number and patch number. This makes a version string such as
 1.2.3 will be returned as the hexadecimal number 0x010203 (decimal 66051).
+.SH NOTES
+This function is not compatible with ares.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Daniel Stenberg