A question about hosts files

[EleGoS]

Guus Sliepen ha scritto:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:30:06PM +0100, EleGoS wrote:
>
>   
>>>> I'm super-happy because I've just finished my semi-auto configurator for 
>>>> Windows machines ^^
>>>>         
>>> Great!
>>>       
>> I'll do a language-indipendent exe if you wish ^^
>>     
>
> Sure, there may be people who like to use it as well.
>
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>> Another question: If I do a star-like VPN (one server Connects To all 
>> the others that want to be inside the net -> A server under a NAT won't 
>> grave it's bandwidth on one bridge-machine to send data to a third PC), 
>> must the main-server restart the service once the tinc.conf is changed 
>> and the hosts/*** created?
>>     
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> If you change tinc.conf, and you run it on Windows, you have to restart
> tinc. On other operating systems, you can make tinc reload tinc.conf by
> sending it a HUP signal. If you only create new hosts/ files, you don't
> need to restart tinc or send signals.
>
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>> Or can I just insert a lot of ConnectTo in the tinc.conf and then create 
>> a lot of hosts/*** that will be changed by the real files, and connect 
>> to them without restarting the service?
>>     
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> That is also a possibility.
>
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>> Eventually, if the service must be resetted: what's the WinCMD command 
>> to restart a service? Just 'sc restart service'?
>>     
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> I think so.
>   

Sorry for 'upping' this reply, but I was interested in one thing: about 
the HUP signal on linux... As far as I know tincd will restart, so all 
clients will be disconnected by the server, or not? If yes, is there a 
way to reload tinc.conf without killing the process?