connection limits

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 18, toylet.linux[?p???N] managed to emit:
> 
> is there a maximum connection limit in the networking services of linux?
> how could I find out all these limits? 
> /usr/src/linux/include/limits.h?

Nope, not there.

> a friend of mine running a public news server using dnews on freebsd.
> and I constantly hit an error message "800 simultaneous connections
> exceeded".

This is a dnews setting.

Kurt
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