Can I just ask here as I don't know python file i/o at all.

The reason I moved filecmp outside the "with tempfile....." was because the file was being held open without an EOF so the filecmp always failed, making it useless. When you do the f.flush(), foes the EOF get added to the temp file, or does the same problem that I had exist here?

On 26/04/2024 16:09, Michael Tremer wrote:
This patches changes that leases will always be written in
alphanumerical order so that we can later compare the newly generated
file with the previous version. If it has not changed, we skip reload
Unbound.

Suggested-by: Nick Howitt <nick@howitts.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
---
 config/unbound/unbound-dhcp-leases-bridge | 20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/unbound/unbound-dhcp-leases-bridge b/config/unbound/unbound-dhcp-leases-bridge
index 5d5696af0..80c8267e8 100644
--- a/config/unbound/unbound-dhcp-leases-bridge
+++ b/config/unbound/unbound-dhcp-leases-bridge
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import argparse
 import datetime
 import daemon
+import filecmp
 import functools
 import ipaddress
 import logging
@@ -516,24 +517,29 @@ class UnboundConfigWriter(object):
 
 	def update_dhcp_leases(self, leases):
 		# Write out all leases
-		self.write_dhcp_leases(leases)
+		if self.write_dhcp_leases(leases):
+			log.debug("Reloading Unbound...")
 
-		log.debug("Reloading Unbound...")
-
-		# Reload the configuration without dropping the cache
-		self._control("reload_keep_cache")
+			# Reload the configuration without dropping the cache
+			self._control("reload_keep_cache")
 
 	def write_dhcp_leases(self, leases):
 		log.debug("Writing DHCP leases...")
 
 		with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w") as f:
-			for l in leases:
+			for l in sorted(leases, key=lambda x: x.ipaddr):
 				for rr in l.rrset:
 					f.write("local-data: \"%s\"\n" % " ".join(rr))
 
 			# Flush the file
 			f.flush()
 
+			# Compare if the new leases file has changed from the previous version
+			if filecmp.cmp(f.name, self.path, shallow=False):
+				log.debug("The generated leases file has not changed")
+
+				return False
+
 			# Make file readable for everyone
 			os.fchmod(f.fileno(), stat.S_IRUSR|stat.S_IWUSR|stat.S_IRGRP|stat.S_IROTH)
 
@@ -543,6 +549,8 @@ class UnboundConfigWriter(object):
 			# Move the file to its destination
 			os.link(f.name, self.path)
 
+		return True
+
 	def _control(self, *args):
 		command = ["unbound-control"]
 		command.extend(args)