I don't know, however form reading unbound-control(1), I am tending to believe that it does so.Do you know ifunbound-control reload
also do reload the root.hints?
Since we inform the path to the root-hints in the config file, and this path may be matter of change, it would not make much sense to selectively keep the hints to the root zones and reload everything else. Anyway, believing is not the same as knowing.man unbound-control said:...
reload Reload the server. This flushes the cache and reads the configfile fresh.
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