Varnish fails on boot with Amazon S3 backend

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <u2sd5bd1ed31005022213n1a685bbat739f2e1b0ddefdae at mail.gmail.com>, Si
mon Males writes:

>Below I have output the error file, and the VCL with the Amazon backend.
>
># cat /tmp/*.varnish
>storage_malloc: max size 2048 MB.
>Message from VCC-compiler:
>Backend host '"site.s3.amazonaws.com"': Name or service not known
>(/etc/varnish/backends.vcl Line 65 Pos 17)
>        .host = "site.s3.amazonaws.com";
>----------------#######################-

That name returns a CNAME dns record here, you need to use something
that returns a A record.

Poul-Henning

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