Does anyone know why the alias code is hard limited at 4999 aliases?

See firewall_aliases_edit.php:line 251: for($x=0; $x<4999; $x++) {

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 8:36
> To: 'pfSense support and discussion'
> Subject: Re: [pfSense] Automated updates to firewall rules
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Buechler
> > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 0:48
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jason Pyeron <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > That would be verry disruptive, it says: "Resetting the
> > state tables
> > > will remove all entries from the corresponding tables. This
> > means that
> > > all open connections will be broken and will have to be 
> > > re-established." We have thousands of active connections
> > for services that should not be interrupted.
> > >
> > 
> > I definitely wouldn't flush the entire state table. You can 
> just kill 
> > off states to/from the IP in question.
> > 
> > 
> > > Sorry, I should have been more clear. I am looking for a
> > way to, in a
> > > single execution, reproduce the steps below.
> > >
> > > Ex: ssh root@firewall 
> '/usr/local/bin/add_ip_to_block_list DOS_DDOS 
> > > x.y.z.q' or
> > > 
> > 
> https://firewall/add_ip_to_block_list.php?alias=DOS_DDOS&address=x.y.z
> > > .q
> > >
> > > I think, after reading
> > > http://www.linuxnet.ch/pfsense-important-cli-commands/, I
> > am going to have to do this by making a custom php script.
> > >
> > 
> > This is probably your best bet today, it wouldn't take a lot to put 
> > that together to meet your requirement. We'll hopefully 
> have an API at 
> > some point in the future, but none exists today.
> 
> Are there any roadmaps towards an API? And are there patch 
> submission guidelines?
> 
> I would like to minimize waste on this.
> 
> -Jason
> 
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