How to reload custom dnsmasq configs?

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Is there a web API or console command option to reload dnsmasq configurations?

As noted in Refreshing dnsmasq from CLI? and restartdns not updating dnsmasq configs · Issue #5203 · pi-hole/pi-hole · GitHub the standard pihole reloaddns or pihole reloadlists do not refresh configs from the /etc/dnsmasq.d directory.

For context I am using the latest pihole container and have a custom dnsmasq config that is updated automatically to provide aliases for devices. When this file changes I am looking for a way for pihole to process the changes. Previously the pihole restartdns command did this but I believe this was removed in pihole v6 so am looking for a new way to hand this. Worst case I could restart the whole pihole container but want to ask if there is a better solution. Thanks!

Versions:

# pihole -v
Core version is v6.1.2 (Latest: v6.1.2)
Web version is v6.2.1 (Latest: v6.2.1)
FTL version is v6.2.3 (Latest: v6.2.3)
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The API offers the endpoint POST /api/action/restartdns which does a full restart of the resolver, however

If you would do this with a hosts file, then you would not need to do anything. Your Pi-hole automatically reloads the config from such files when they change. No further action required. The only thing you need to do is placing the file into /etc/pihole/hosts.