# How long to TCP's hosts max length?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-long-to-tcps-hosts-max-length/201881>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-long-to-tcps-hosts-max-length/201881 "2019-10-02T01:20:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![111219](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/111219/32/55161_2.png) [@111219](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111219)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-long-to-tcps-hosts-max-length/201881/1 "2019-10-02T01:20:15Z")

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What is the maximum length of hosts with an attribute of type tcp?

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-long-to-tcps-hosts-max-length/201881/2 "2019-10-02T02:49:08Z")

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Are you running into trouble here? While we do not have any explicit limits, the underlying libraries / OS used may.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-long-to-tcps-hosts-max-length/201881/3 "2019-10-30T02:49:14Z")

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