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Use today's date. Sort options. Remove superfluous Tn macro. Wording improvement.

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.\" $NetBSD: rpcbind.8,v 1.13 2017/08/16 14:22:58 christos Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: rpcbind.8,v 1.14 2017/08/16 18:23:03 wiz Exp $
.\" @(#)rpcbind.1m 1.19 92/09/14 SMI; from SVr4
.\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
.\" Copyright 1991 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/rpcbind/rpcbind.8 317163 2017-04-19 20:23:27Z ngie $
.Dd August 18, 2017
.Dd August 16, 2017
.Dt RPCBIND 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -11,45 +11,31 @@
.Nd universal addresses to RPC program number mapper
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl 6adiLlswW
.Op Fl 6adiLlsWw
.Op Fl h Ar bindip
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is a server that converts
.Tn RPC
program numbers into
utility is a server that converts RPC program numbers into
universal addresses.
It must be running on the host to be able to make
.Tn RPC
calls
It must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls
on a server on that machine.
.Pp
When an
.Tn RPC
service is started,
When an RPC service is started,
it tells
.Nm
the address at which it is listening,
and the
.Tn RPC
program numbers it is prepared to serve.
When a client wishes to make an
.Tn RPC
call to a given program number,
and the RPC program numbers it is prepared to serve.
When a client wishes to make an RPC call to a given program number,
it first contacts
.Nm
on the server machine to determine
the address where
.Tn RPC
requests should be sent.
the address where RPC requests should be sent.
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility should be started before any other RPC service.
Normally, standard
.Tn RPC
servers are started by port monitors, so
Normally, standard RPC servers are started by port monitors, so
.Nm
must be started before port monitors are invoked.
.Pp
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is started, it checks that certain name-to-address
translation-calls function correctly.
If they fail, the network configuration databases may be corrupt.
Since
.Tn RPC
services cannot function correctly in this situation,
Since RPC services cannot function correctly in this situation,
.Nm
reports the condition and terminates.
.Pp
@ -83,7 +67,7 @@ Bind to AF_INET6 (IPv6) addresses only.
.It Fl a
When debugging
.Pq Fl d ,
do an abort on errors.
abort on errors.
.It Fl d
Run in debug mode.
In this mode,