tcp reset problem with varnish 2.0.4 o n Solaris 10 (SPARC)

[Alex Hooper]

Hi,

Having a requirement to ease the load on a high-traffic site of ours, I
was recently diverted from reaching for Squid by a colleague who
recommended Varnish.

I grabbed the source for 2.0.4 (having looked for a package but not
found one, despite a suggestion that it was available as part of Sun's
Webstack) and compiled it using the compiler bundled with Sun Studio 12
update 1 (having initially tried using gcc and hitting a problem with
isfinite()).

All compiled fine so I created a simple test config:

  backend test01 {
    .host = "83.231.175.37";
    .port = "80";
    .connect_timeout = 10s;
    .first_byte_timeout = 15s;
    .between_bytes_timeout = 2s;

  }

  sub vcl_recv {
    set req.backend = test01;

  }

and started up with

  varnishd -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -p sess_timeout=60 -f
/local/etc/varnish/bmjgroup.vcl


That looked OK, but requests to varnish all gave 503s. Watching the
logs, I could see that flow was passing from 'pass' to 'error', but was
given no more clue. It wasn't until I watched the packets on the wire
that I saw that Varnish was sending resets before even completing a
handshake:

  varnish -> web:	SYN
  varnish -> web:	RST
  web -> varnish:	SYN ACK
  varnish -> web:	RST


Having searched the wiki, mailing lists and bug database for a
resolution to this, I found nothing except for issue #522 (Odd TCP reset
problems with trunk 4080) which seems not to be related.

I compiled, and am running varnish on, Solaris 10 5/08 (SPARC).

I wonder does anyone have an idea of what might be happening?

Cheers,

Alex.
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