diff --git a/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
index f752a438f4b7..0de6cd421f08 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.8 1999/01/19 08:28:03 lukem Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.9 1999/01/20 03:03:25 lukem Exp $
 .\"
 .\"  Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\"  All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"  TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
 .\"  USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd January 16, 1998
+.Dd January 20, 1998
 .Dt NSSWITCH.CONF 5
 .Os NetBSD
 .Sh NAME
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The configuration file controls how a process looks up various databases
 containing information regarding hosts, users (passwords), groups,
 netgroups, etc.
 Each database comes from a source (such as local files, DNS, and
-.Tn NIS ),
+.Tn NIS ) ,
 and the order to look up the sources is specified in
 .Nm nsswitch.conf .
 .Pp
@@ -70,12 +70,14 @@ and
 .Pa /etc/passwd .
 .It dns	Internet Domain Name System.
 .Dq hosts
-uses
+and
+.Sq networks
+use
 .Sy IN
 class entries, all other databases use
 .Sy HS
 class (Hesiod) entries.
-.It nis	NIS (formally YP)
+.It nis	NIS (formerly YP)
 .It compat	support
 .Sq +/-
 in the
@@ -92,10 +94,11 @@ The following databases are used by the following C library functions:
 .It group	
 .Xr getpwent 3
 .It hosts	
-.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
-.Xr gethostbyaddr 3
+.Xr gethostbyname 3
 .It netgroup	
 .Xr getnetgrent 3
+.It networks	
+.Xr getnetbyname 3
 .It passwd	
 .Xr getpwent 3
 .It shells	
@@ -107,8 +110,8 @@ The following status codes are available:
 .Sy Status	Description
 .It success	The requested entry was found.
 .It notfound	The entry is not present at this source.
-.It unavail	The source is not responding, or entry is corrupt.
 .It tryagain	The source is busy, and may respond to retries.
+.It unavail	The source is not responding, or entry is corrupt.
 .El
 .Ss Actions
 For each of the status codes, one of two actions is possible:
@@ -157,7 +160,7 @@ In historical multi-source implementations, the
 .Sq +
 and
 .Sq -
-characters are used to signify the importing of user password and
+characters are used to specify the importing of user password and
 group information from
 .Tn NIS .
 Although
@@ -208,6 +211,8 @@ Exceptions are:
 .Bd -
 .Bl -column passwd_compat "dns files" -offset indent
 .Sy Database	Default source list
+.It group	compat
+.It group_compat	nis
 .It hosts	dns files
 .It passwd	compat
 .It passwd_compat	nis
@@ -237,16 +242,6 @@ The criteria
 sets a policy of "if the user is notfound in nis, don't try files."
 This treats nis as the authoritive source of information, except
 when the server is down.
-.Pp
-If the older-style "+/-" syntax for
-.Pa /etc/passwd
-is required, use:
-.Bl -column "passwd_compat:" -offset indent
-.It passwd:	compat
-.It group:	compat
-.It passwd_compat:	nis
-.It group_compat:	nis
-.El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr nsdispatch 3 ,
 .Xr resolv.conf 5 ,