[bind10-dev] Shutting down a BIND 10 process

[Tony Finch]

On 23 Apr 2010, at 12:48, "Jeremy C. Reed" <jreed at isc.org> wrote:
>
> I do agree there should be a fast halt option which means abort  
> current tasks, as long as that doesn't corrupt data that may be used  
> later.

It should not be possible to corrupt data by abruptly killing or  
crashing the server. (see http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/candea.html 
)

I note that Apache's normal shutdown (invoked by '/etc/rc.d/rc.apache  
stop') is abrupt, because that's what you want when init is shutting  
down the computer. There's also 'rc.apache graceful' for use when  
quiescing a server while completing existing connections (eg so other  
servers behind a load balancer can take over).

Tony.
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