{
"subject": "Re: Feature Request: Limiting Connections",
"content": {
"format": "html",
"body": "<div class=\"post\">I reduced max outbound connections from 15 to 8 in RC4.<br/><br/>15 was way more than we needed for redundancy. 8 is still plenty of redundancy.<br/><br/>As the nodes upgrade to this version, this will cut in half the number of connections that inbound accepting nodes get.<br/><br/>If anyone wants more than 8 connections, they can open port 8333 on their firewall.</div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=223.msg1929#msg1929"
},
"date": "2010-07-02T22:20:20Z"
}