Varnish returns 503 error.

Abraham Cruz Sustaita abraham.sustaita at buscacorp.com
Thu Jun 14 00:54:26 CEST 2012


Thanks a lot. I have made the change you suggested me and it seems its
working now.

I'm still checking but I think its working very fine right now.

Thanks a lot again.

2012/6/13 Hugo Cisneiros (Eitch) <hugo.cisneiros at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Abraham Cruz Sustaita
> <abraham.sustaita at buscacorp.com> wrote:
> > I understand varnish have to restart the connection and try again in
> another app server (I have 5), but it allways returns the 503 error, so I
> understand that means the rule is being ignored.
>
> The only way to be sure what is happening is to log details from the
> requests using varnishlog.
>
> The restart function will reset the request and it goes back to
> vcl_recv as if it is a new request. But since you're using saintmode,
> maybe varnish isn't really retrying to fetch this particular URL from
> the backend. You can do a
>
> if (req.restarts > 3) {
>  set beresp.saintmode = 5m;
> }
>
> and it will restart at least 2 times before inserting the item on
> saintmode.
>
> > I have made this change to the vcl file:
> [...]
> > Do I have to increase also the first_byte_timeout?
>
> You need to increase only if the request isn't getting reply data in
> the first 30 seconds :) You can check this with varnishlog and
> varnishncsa to be sure.
>
> --
> []'s
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