diff --git a/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8 b/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8
index 89360d94a07c..8aafa7352cb3 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: mountd.8,v 1.17 1998/04/28 04:07:08 fair Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: mountd.8,v 1.18 1998/07/15 22:00:59 fvdl Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ Enable debugging mode.
 will not detach from the controlling terminal and will print
 debugging messages to stderr.
 .It Fl n
-Do not require that clients make requests from reserved ports.
-This option is only provided for backwards compatibility. Requests
+This flag used to indicate that clients were required to make requests
+from reserved ports, but it is now no longer functional. It
+is only provided for backwards compatibility. Requests
 are checked for reserved ports on a per-export basis, see
 .Xr exports 5 .
 .It Ar exportsfile