The reload is in-process and takes 10-30 ms; the fixed sleep was the window in
which a removed upstream was already unrouted in dshackle while the gateway still
held the old announcements and kept sending queries it could no longer answer.
Poll the log for 'Reloading config has been completed' (or the fail/drop
markers), SETTLE stays the upper bound. Operator 2026-09-19.
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