Connecting to remote host

[Varun Nath]

Thank You so much for your support. Will try this and let you know

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:49 PM Guillaume Quintard <
guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> The backend portion of the vcl only handles the TCP part of the equation.
> If your backend expect a specific host, you need to either have the client
> give it, or have varnish override it.
>
> Try curl -I localhost/your/file -H "host: whatever.your.host.is.com"
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 09:02 Varun Nath <varunnath86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I tried with http://locahost, but that is expected, right? since
>> the backend server is configured in VCL file. Sorry if I am wrong
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:29 PM Guillaume Quintard <
>> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Note: please keep the mailing list CC'd
>>>
>>> Check the host header you are sending to the backend. Usually, a 404
>>> arises because the URL and/or the host wrong.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking you possibly tested varnish requesting something like
>>> http://localhost/your/test/file, but your backend isn't configured to
>>> reply to the "localhost" host
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 08:55 Varun Nath <varunnath86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks again for the quick response.
>>>> I have checked the log and getting the expected IP address in *BackendStart
>>>> *parameter.  Sorry I didnt get what you mean by  you need to change *the
>>>> host header before sending the request to the backend. *Could you
>>>> please elaborate a little bit?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:20 PM Guillaume Quintard <
>>>> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Use varnishlog -b (with possibly -d) to see the backend transactions
>>>>> and see what IP is being used (is it the right one). It could also be that
>>>>> you need to change the host header before sending the request to the
>>>>> backend.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 08:39 Varun Nath <varunnath86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> I need to connect to a remote host from local VCL config file. I have
>>>>>> added the backend config as below
>>>>>>
>>>>>> backend default {
>>>>>>     .host = "remote.host.com";
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But am getting Page not available message. Do I miss something?
>>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>>
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