diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f1f67460..75b415ec 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ NEWS
   * fixed various crashes at startup on broken accesslog.format strings (#1000)
   * fixed handling of %% in accesslog.format
   * fixed conditional dir-listing.exclude (#930)
+  * reduced default PATH_MAX to 255 (#826)
 
 
 - 1.4.13 - 2006-10-09
diff --git a/src/mod_dirlisting.c b/src/mod_dirlisting.c
index c15c7e71..bd23f09d 100644
--- a/src/mod_dirlisting.c
+++ b/src/mod_dirlisting.c
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ static int http_list_directory(server *srv, connection *con, plugin_data *p, buf
 #ifdef NAME_MAX
 		name_max = NAME_MAX;
 #else
-		name_max = 256; /* stupid default */
+		name_max = 255; /* stupid default */
 #endif
 	}
 #elif defined __WIN32