Restart needed after new backend declared?

[Simon Kammerer]

Hi list,

I declared a new backend and added a simple rule in vcl_recv like

if(req.http.host ~ "xx.yyy.com"){
         set req.backend = newbackend;
}

and then used Kristians script to reload VCL:

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#!/bin/bash
# Reload a varnish config
# Author: Kristian Lyngstol

FILE="/etc/varnish/default.vcl"

# Hostname and management port
# (defined in /etc/default/varnish or on startup)
HOSTPORT="localhost:6082"
NOW=`date +%s`

error()
{
      echo 1>&2 "Failed to reload $FILE."
      exit 1
}

varnishadm -T $HOSTPORT vcl.load reload$NOW $FILE || error varnishadm -T 
$HOSTPORT vcl.use reload$NOW || error echo Current configs:
varnishadm -T $HOSTPORT vcl.list
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But the new backend is not used, I had to restart varnish to use the new 
configuration.

Am I missing something?





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