retitle 798653 Should detect entries removed from files in hostsdir=/dir/ and 
not serve them anymore
severity 798653 wishlist
thanks

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:16:26PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
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> > What does not seem to work is that addresses removed from the file
> > are removed from the cache immediately. So if I remove the entry
> > for sid it will still be served.
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> That's documented behaviour. New or changed files are read, so extra
> information is added, but old information is not removed. Doing that
> needs a SIGUSR1 as it's a rather heavyweight operation that involves
> deleting everything are re-reading all the relevant files.

Thanks for the update. It would still be nice functionality though. I've
moved the severity to wishlist but feel free to close it.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

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