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diff --git a/contrib/telnet/telnet/telnet.1 b/contrib/telnet/telnet/telnet.1
index 2e0181c..d4d1a61 100644
--- a/contrib/telnet/telnet/telnet.1
+++ b/contrib/telnet/telnet/telnet.1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)telnet.1 8.6 (Berkeley) 6/1/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 27, 2000
+.Dd September 18, 2006
.Dt TELNET 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -640,6 +640,13 @@ without white space are the start of a machine entry.
The
first thing on the line is the name of the machine that is
being connected to.
+It may be the hostname or numeric address specified as the argument
+.Ar host ,
+the canonical name of that string as determined by
+.Xr getaddrinfo 3 ,
+or the string
+.Dq DEFAULT
+indicating all hosts.
The rest of the line, and successive
lines that begin with white space are assumed to be
.Nm
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