diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d60464..ed80325 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ keywords must be in upper case.  Any values in the key=value pairs have
 whitespace stripped from the beginning and end of the line. Since there is no
 escaping of characters going on, regular expressions are WYSIWYG.
 
+Finding typos and so forth in the config file is easy; use the -v command flag
+to print all unrecognized content (besides comments).
+
+`ban2fail -v`
+
 The only way to alter the default blocking behavior is with a MAX\_OFFENSES
 clause. This clause allows you specify how many offenses are tolerated before an
 IP is blocked. Offenses will naturally disappear as old logfiles are deleted by
diff --git a/ban2fail.c b/ban2fail.c
index 84bc979..2e47e7b 100644
--- a/ban2fail.c
+++ b/ban2fail.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct Global G= {
    .version= {
       .major= 0,
       .minor= 9,
-      .patch= 4
+      .patch= 5
    }
 };
 
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 "  -a\t\tList results by Address\n"
 "  -c\t\tlist results by Country\n"
 "  -t confFile\tTest confFile, do not apply iptables rules\n"
+"  -v\t\tVerbose information about unrecognized configuration info\n"
 "  --version\tprint the version number and exit.\n"
          , argv[0]
          );