'Make a copy of some of the current global CONF\'s settings.
Allows determining if any of these values have changed when the config
is reloaded.'

def stash_conf_values(self):

    conf = {}
    conf['bind_host'] = self.conf.bind_host
    conf['bind_port'] = self.conf.bind_port
    conf['backlog'] = self.conf.backlog
    conf['key_file'] = self.conf.key_file
    conf['cert_file'] = self.conf.cert_file
    return conf
