HI,<div><br></div><div>It depends on how down your site is. You might benefit from saint mode <a href="http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleSaintMode">http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleSaintMode</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Stew</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 November 2010 14:01, Klapproth, Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Klapproth.M@sportresult.com">Klapproth.M@sportresult.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I have a general question relating to varnish’s
vcl configuration. I want the varnish server to send old cached objects if the
backend is down (marked unhealthy). I have tested various grace configurations
but nothing worked, because grace takes only effect if the backend is slow, but
not if it’s down. So is there a way (maybe in vcl_error)?</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Thanks,</span></font></p>

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