Strange behaviour using director random

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <onzb4r321qfrrus.250920081133 at torlen.net>, duja at torlen.net writes:
>Im testing directors in varnish 2.0 beta 2 with two backends.
>
>The thing is that only one machine is getting all the traffic when
>using random directors and .weight = 1 on both backends.

This could be because Varnish manages to reuse the connection to the
backend so it never needs to choose backend server.

To test this hypothesis:  disable keepalive on the backend.

If that is inconvenient or unpractical, set a "Connection: close"
header in vcl_miss/vcl_pass/vcl_pipe.

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