keepalived not removing VIP properly (not in general, just inspecial case)

[Dominik Klein]

Hi

so I tested some situations:

/etc/init.d/keepalived start
VIP added - fine
/etc/init.d/keepalived stop
VIP removed - fine

/etc/init.d/keepalived start
VIP added - fine
pkill keepalived
VIP removed - fine

/etc/init.d/keepalived start
VIP added - fine
pkill -9 keepalived
VIP not removed - did not expect anything else

/etc/init.d/keepalived start
VIP still online (see above)
/etc/init.d/keepalived stop
VIP not removed - ?!

Can someone explain why keepalived does not remove the VIP in this case? 
I can easily script something that checks if VIP is still there after 
keepalived stopped and removes it, but it would be nice, if keepalived 
did this on its own.

Regards,
Dominik