<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Michael Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@dynamine.net">michael@dynamine.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>I'm all for putting backend hashing into Varnish for the purpose of routing requests to backends based on a consistent hash of the request parameters -- and there's no reason why the backend can't be another Varnish instance. But the appropriate use of this is to more efficiently utilize cache memory by associating an object with a designated Varnish server in a pool, not for HA. This was one of my first requests that still (alas) has seen no traction.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Although now that haproxy does it, my request may now be moot.</div><div><br></div><div>--Michael</div></div>