> On Mar 2, 2017, at 23:13, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurab...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Mar 2, 2017, at 22:49, Hiroki Sato <h...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Ngie Cooper <n...@freebsd.org> wrote
>> in <201703030613.v236dxdl010...@repo.freebsd.org>:
>> 
>> ng> Author: ngie
>> ng> Date: Fri Mar  3 06:13:59 2017
>> ng> New Revision: 314585
>> ng> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314585
>> ng>
>> ng> Log:
>> ng>   Correct verb change for service => `*` after r314563
>> ng>
>> ng>   `*` means that packets will be received from a remote peer on any port.
>> ng>   Since the point of interest is the syslogd instance (not the remote 
>> peer),
>> ng>   the appropriate verb is "received", not "sent".
>> ng>
>> ng>   MFC after:     1 month
>> ng>   X-MFC with:    r314563
>> ng>   Sponsored by:  Dell EMC Isilon
>> ng>
>> ng> Modified:
>> ng>   head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
>> ng>
>> ng> Modified: head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
>> ng> 
>> ==============================================================================
>> ng> --- head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8      Fri Mar  3 06:06:27 2017        
>> (r314584)
>> ng> +++ head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8      Fri Mar  3 06:13:59 2017        
>> (r314585)
>> ng> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ A
>> ng>  .Ar service
>> ng>  of
>> ng>  .Ql \&*
>> ng> -allows packets to be sent from any UDP port.
>> ng> +allows packets to be received from any UDP port.
>> ng>  The default
>> ng>  .Ar service
>> 
>> It is incorrect that syslogd receives a UDP packet on any local port
>> when a "*" is specified.  This address validation is done by using
>> the source port number in a received UDP packet, so the point of
>> interest is the remote peer.
>> 
>> How about "...accepts UDP packets sent with any source port" or
>> something?
> 
> Yeah, that’s more accurate.

How about this?
-Ngie

$ svn diff usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
Index: usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8  (revision 314585)
+++ usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8  (working copy)
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
 .Ar service
 of
 .Ql \&*
-allows packets to be received from any UDP port.
+allows UDP packets to be sent with any source port.
 The default
 .Ar service
 is

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