One way to do this may be to block the port with a firewall rule during
reload. This way nginx will have to wait for the connect timeout (and
hopefully retry) rather than failing immediately after receiving a RST from
the closed port.

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:15 PM duda <nginx-forum@forum.nginx.org> wrote:

> *That is
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