acl size limitation

[Kirk]

Evan Hunt wrote:
>> Does anyone know if their is a size limitation in BIND acl's?
> 
> Other than addressable memory limits and that sort of thing, no.  I've seen
> people use ACLs with thousands of entries.
> 
> Do you have some particular reason for asking?  The code implementing ACLs
> was substantially rewritten in 9.5 to use a more efficient data structure.
> If there are problems turning up with very large ACLs, I'd like to hear
> about it.
> 

Evan,

No real conclusive reason for asking at this time.

Currently we are using CentOS 4.x and its patching mechanism.  So 
utilizing BIND 9.5 is not an option at this time.

Thanks for the quick reply