Send old content if backend is down

[Per Buer]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Klapproth, Martin <
Klapproth.M at sportresult.com> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>
>
> I have a general question relating to varnish’s vcl configuration. I want
> the varnish server to send old cached objects if the backend is down (marked
> unhealthy). I have tested various grace configurations but nothing worked,
> because grace takes only effect if the backend is slow, but not if it’s
> down. So is there a way (maybe in vcl_error)?
>

Yes. There is a way.

http://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/tutorial/handling_misbehaving_servers.html#saint-mode

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Per Buer,  Varnish Software
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