"Bryan Guest" <bryang@bmts.com> writes: > Hello: > > > > I am running NNTPCache-2.3.3 on Solaris 2.6. > > > > My clients intermittently receive the message: > > > > 499 Remote server down? > > > > But, the server is not down (I can ping and telnet to port 119). > > > > There is a limit on the server of my upstream provider to 5 simultaneous > connections. > > > > So does nntpcached make more than 5 connections during normal use, and is > there a way to limit this? Yes, and kind of. You can set the amount of time idle before each connection will be dropped.