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authorwodry <wodry@users.noreply.github.com>2016-11-30 17:19:08 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-12-03 12:03:29 +0100
commita710a4304033eea581e463a5fb0502bdb8991aa1 (patch)
tree91cee69b595afc8757246adfc5305fe7b7e5d0cd /src
parent58eab244fb9514b74e157b5dde9060cc8f3b77a8 (diff)
Improvement of documentation of command line parameter 'whitelist'
Github-Pull: #9251 Rebased-From: 8a70a9da3da0df5c376042b18b87f0a63e88d2e3
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/init.cpp2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 4a837018b1..bbdab14ee0 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
#endif
#endif
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-whitebind=<addr>", _("Bind to given address and whitelist peers connecting to it. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6"));
- strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-whitelist=<netmask>", _("Whitelist peers connecting from the given netmask or IP address. Can be specified multiple times.") +
+ strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-whitelist=<IP address or network>", _("Whitelist peers connecting from the given IP address (e.g. 1.2.3.4) or CIDR notated network (e.g. 1.2.3.0/24). Can be specified multiple times.") +
" " + _("Whitelisted peers cannot be DoS banned and their transactions are always relayed, even if they are already in the mempool, useful e.g. for a gateway"));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-whitelistrelay", strprintf(_("Accept relayed transactions received from whitelisted peers even when not relaying transactions (default: %d)"), DEFAULT_WHITELISTRELAY));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-whitelistforcerelay", strprintf(_("Force relay of transactions from whitelisted peers even if they violate local relay policy (default: %d)"), DEFAULT_WHITELISTFORCERELAY));