Is there a limit to the number of servers you can have?

joesloppy · Post by **joesloppy** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:29 pm

I downloaded a list a free news servers from one of those websites that list them. There was a few hundred, I just copied them all to a .srv file and imported them into newspro, but I dont think it caught them all. And now when I go to add a new server, I get the error- you already have ___ , when I dont. To test that there was maybe a limit, I deleted one server and then was able to add one, but not two. So, is there a reason for a limit or should I just be focusing on taking only the servers from the free site with the most groups or post???

Thanks

alex · Post by **alex** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:14 am

the limit is 255 servers, in principle allocating 2 bytes instead of 1 per server destination would increase the number to 64K. for different reasons it is better not to be 64K but for example 1K, but I'm not sure all that needed.

if i have some time at some point i could make the number varialbe set at the compilation time (but records in the database would be different then, 1 more byte per every server destination).