Hi, I configured varnish (64bits server) with two backends as a director:
backend www2 { .host = "XX.XX.XX.XX"; .port = "80"; .probe = { .url = "/"; .timeout = 2s; .interval = 5s; .window = 2; .threshold = 1; } } backend www2 { .host = "XX.XX.XX.XX"; .port = "80"; .probe = { .request = "GET / HTTP/1.1" "Host: www...." "Connection: close"; .timeout = 500ms; .interval = 5s; .window = 2; .threshold = 1; } } director www_director random{ { .backend = www1; .weight = 2; } { .backend = www2; .weight=1; } } ... sub vcl_recv { set req.grace = 30s; if (req.url ~ "/pub") { if (req.restarts == 0) { set req.backend = pub8; } else { set req.backend = pub6; } } else { set req.backend = www_director; } # if (req.http.Cookie ~ "www1\...." && req.http.Cookie ~ "auth_id=" ) { set req.backend = www1; } if (req.http.Cookie ~ "www2\...." && req.http.Cookie ~ "auth_id=" ) { set req.backend = www2; } When I stopped one of the backend, varnish is no longer responding. I can see clearly in varnishlog that the backend regards to ill state but the failover is not working. A telnet on port 80 of varnish didn't work either. ReLauching the backend and varnish restarts working. Using a vcl.conf without director is working ( The polling detects the fail of the backend) thanks for your help jean-marc _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc