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HUP process signal should reload the process

Open mortn opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

When sending the hickory-dns proces a HUP signal (on POSIX systems), like kill -s HUP [PID of hickory-dns], it should reload the process.

By reload is meant re-read the configuration files (named.toml) as well as zone files without halting operations/responding to client requests.

mortn avatar Apr 29 '25 21:04 mortn

@divergentdave should this be part of #2725?

djc avatar Apr 30 '25 12:04 djc

@divergentdave should this be part of #2725?

We don't have a need for config reloading currently.

divergentdave avatar Apr 30 '25 13:04 divergentdave