WARNING: distcc[d] performs NO AUTHENTICATION at all and should ONLY be used in trusted networks! NEW in 2.18 Distccd now requires the --allow (-a) argument when running in daemon mode. This option restricts distcc to a specific network, by default this port uses 127.0.0.0/8, you should change this by specifying your own distccd_flags in /etc/rc.conf, see the script in etc/rc.d/distccd.sh for a template. Additionally it is reccomended that you add entries to /etc/syslog.conf to record all distccd log messages to a file such as /var/log/distccd.log. Example syslog.conf entry: !distccd *.* /var/log/distccd.log The daemon runs on port 3632 by default. You can change that value by calling distccd with the -p parameter, e.g. `distccd -p 4711'. Do not edit the rc.d script to achieve this instead override the value of distccd_flags in /etc/rc.conf. Note that remote daemons currently won't work if they cannot resolve the reverse DNS of the master machine