Transmission

I'm generating and updating my own blocklists in transmission-gtk's config directory; is there a technique for verifying that the IP blocks are being applied?
I have left the "blocklist-*' config options alone (e.g. "blocklist-enabled" is false).

The only apparent evidence is that the binary ...

Sending HUP signal to transmission-gtk causes it to die; is there a way I can signal the process to reload it's config, specifically rebuilding the binary representations of blocklists that are stored in ~/.config/transmission/blocklists ?

I've got a cron job that updates the lists, and If I'm ...