diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 5ad807cbac..7eb0834f99 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ bool AppInitParameterInteraction(const ArgsManager& args)
 
     // Trim requested connection counts, to fit into system limitations
     // <int> in std::min<int>(...) to work around FreeBSD compilation issue described in #2695
-    nFD = RaiseFileDescriptorLimit(nMaxConnections + MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS + MAX_ADDNODE_CONNECTIONS);
+    nFD = RaiseFileDescriptorLimit(nMaxConnections + MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS + MAX_ADDNODE_CONNECTIONS + nBind);
 #ifdef USE_POLL
     int fd_max = nFD;
 #else