Varnish folks, How does saint mode work when a director is being used? The discussion here
https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleSaintMode mentions this case briefly, but doesn't have much detail. To make this more concrete, let's say I am using a round-robin director to distribute traffic across three back ends named A, B, and C, and suppose that in vcl_fetch I see a 500 response that came from A. If I set saint mode to 20 seconds on the response, does that mean that the object is blacklisted on A for 20 seconds, and therefore subsequent requests for that object go to B and C? And if saint mode subsequently also blacklists the object on B and C as well, does that mean that grace mode kicks in, and a cached copy is returned? Assuming I have this right, then it sounds like the backend health checks used by the director are a large-scale way to blacklist all requests for a back end, whereas saint mode is a small-scale object-by-object way to blacklist a back end. Thanks in advance for the help, Jeff
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