retry on 503 -- but not right away please

[Andreas Plesner Jacobsen]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:38:13PM +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

> > I don't understand why you're seeing this 503 in vcl_error. A backend
> > responding with a 503 would just hit the regular fetch->deliver path, not
> > vcl_error, unless you explicitly return error somewhere in your vcl, so maybe
> > your initial analysis of the problem is wrong?
> 
> I'm uncertain where the error is coming from (backend or varnish), but

Please investigate using varnishlog.
Something like varnishlog -m TxStatus:503

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Andreas