can named service requests while reloading?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200004042145.QAA27516 at pvtest.cc.iastate.edu>,
John Hascall  <john at iastate.edu> wrote:
>
>> My named does not service requests while reloading...It usually takes
>> several minutes. Is this normal. We are using 8.2.2p5. Thanks.
>
>    This is normal, and it sucks.

I thought that this was something that was changed between BIND 4 and BIND
8, and BIND 8 was supposed to be able to respond during "ndc reload".

>    What we did was modify how named starts.

Aren't we talking about reload, not restart?

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