Possible to disable/inactivate a backend using VCL?

Batanun B batanun at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 19 15:43:07 UTC 2023


> backend theBackend none;
> Here's the relevant documentation: https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-backends.html#the-none-backend
> It was added in 6.4.

Look like exactly what we need! Sadly we are "stuck" on 6.0 until the next LTS version comes. So I think that until then I will use our poor man version of the "none" backend, ie pointing to localhost with an port number that won't give a response.
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