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<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;">> backend theBackend none;</span><br>
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> Here's the relevant documentation:<span> </span><a href="https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-backends.html#the-none-backend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px">https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-backends.html#the-none-backend</a></div>
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> <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">It was added in 6.4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">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.</span></div>
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