diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 18620a008c..30518e621d 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ type config struct {
 	AddPeers             []string      `short:"a" long:"addpeer" description:"Add a peer to connect with at startup"`
 	AddrIndex            bool          `long:"addrindex" description:"Maintain a full address-based transaction index which makes the searchrawtransactions RPC available"`
 	AgentBlacklist       []string      `long:"agentblacklist" description:"A comma separated list of user-agent substrings which will cause btcd to reject any peers whose user-agent contains any of the blacklisted substrings."`
-	AgentWhitelist       []string      `long:"agentwhitelist" description:"A comma separated list of user-agent substrings which will cause btcd to require all peers' user-agents to contain one of the whitelisted substrings. The blacklist is applied before the blacklist, and an empty whitelist will allow all agents that do not fail the blacklist."`
+	AgentWhitelist       []string      `long:"agentwhitelist" description:"A comma separated list of user-agent substrings which will cause btcd to require all peers' user-agents to contain one of the whitelisted substrings. The blacklist is applied before the whitelist, and an empty whitelist will allow all agents that do not fail the blacklist."`
 	BanDuration          time.Duration `long:"banduration" description:"How long to ban misbehaving peers.  Valid time units are {s, m, h}.  Minimum 1 second"`
 	BanThreshold         uint32        `long:"banthreshold" description:"Maximum allowed ban score before disconnecting and banning misbehaving peers."`
 	BlockMaxSize         uint32        `long:"blockmaxsize" description:"Maximum block size in bytes to be used when creating a block"`