another rndc status question

[Kirk]

Jack Tavares wrote:
> It appears to me that issuing a
> rndc status 
> command will tall named to reload the config
> if the named.conf file has changed.
>  
> Is that what is happening (or is there something else going
> on in my system to cause the reload)
>  
> If that is what is happening, I assume it is intentional.
>   I can't find any documentation that mentions this.
>  

Usage: rndc [-c config] [-s server] [-p port]
         [-k key-file ] [-y key] [-V] command

command is one of the following:

   reload        Reload configuration file and zones.
   reload zone [class [view]]
                 Reload a single zone.
   refresh zone [class [view]]
                 Schedule immediate maintenance for a zone.
   retransfer zone [class [view]]
                 Retransfer a single zone without checking serial number.
   freeze        Suspend updates to all dynamic zones.
   freeze zone [class [view]]
                 Suspend updates to a dynamic zone.
   thaw          Enable updates to all dynamic zones and reload them.
   thaw zone [class [view]]
                 Enable updates to a frozen dynamic zone and reload it.
   notify zone [class [view]]
                 Resend NOTIFY messages for the zone.
   reconfig      Reload configuration file and new zones only.
   stats         Write server statistics to the statistics file.
   querylog      Toggle query logging.
   dumpdb [-all|-cache|-zones] [view ...]
                 Dump cache(s) to the dump file (named_dump.db).
   stop          Save pending updates to master files and stop the server.
   stop -p       Save pending updates to master files and stop the server
                 reporting process id.
   halt          Stop the server without saving pending updates.
   halt -p       Stop the server without saving pending updates reporting
                 process id.
   trace         Increment debugging level by one.
   trace level   Change the debugging level.
   notrace       Set debugging level to 0.
   flush         Flushes all of the server's caches.
   flush [view]  Flushes the server's cache for a view.
   flushname name [view]
                 Flush the given name from the server's cache(s)
   status        Display status of the server.
   recursing     Dump the queries that are currently recursing 
(named.recursing)
   validation newstate [view]
                 Enable / disable DNSSEC validation.
   *restart      Restart the server.

* == not yet implemented
Version: 9.5.0-P2