I installed a new daqd to test raising the connection count for nds1. The server h1nds2 is running a daqd build with a higher connection limit. The code was build from the branch-3.2.x-consumer-limits branch of advLigoRTS. I had to cherry pick 54fca2af32c1643ae2f571cb360526616ea0b158 to update the comm.y file to work with a 'newer' version of bison. It has passed the initial test of running 80 simultanious streams (the fix is not a rearchitecting of the connection and buffer tracking code which would be needed to make it truely arbitrary, but an expanding of the current way of tracking things to hold a few more conenctions).
To test against this server run the following in your shell/console and then launch your program (from that same shell/console):
export LIGONDSIP=h1nds2
export NDSSERVER=h1nds2:8088
or manually connect to h1nds2:8088