[Pdns-users] recursor config reload without restart

[bert hubert]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:40:19PM +0300, Imre Gergely wrote:
> is it possible to tell the running pdns recursor process to re-read the
> config file (i'm interested in the allow-recursion acl) WITHOUT
> restarting the whole recursor and losing the cache ?

No, this is not completely possible. 

> so far i didn't find anything, but i would think it's a mandatory
> option, to not lose 6-8 million cache entries if the access list changes
> relatively often.

Hmm, ok. It should be doable, but it is some work. Do you have other things
that need to be able to reloaded? It might make more sense to store the
cache otherwise and be able to restart..

	Bert

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