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Hi <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Guillaume</span>,</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">> I'm curious,
if it's completely deactivated what's the benefit of having it in the vcl?</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">It is only
intended to be deactivated in production (until we go live). Our test and staging environments have the backend active.</span></div>
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> if (false) {
<div class="ContentPasted1">> set req.backend_hint = you_deactivated_backend;</div>
> }<br>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">Thanks,
I will test this. </span></div>
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prod-specific setup for this backend looks like this:</span></div>
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theBackend {
<div class="ContentPasted2"> .host = "localhost";</div>
<div class="ContentPasted2"> .port = "9999";</div>
<div class="ContentPasted2"> .probe = {</div>
<div class="ContentPasted2"> .interval = 1h;</div>
<div class="ContentPasted2"> }</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted2">This
seems to be working when testing it locally. It also solves the problem of having to assign some arbitrary ip or hostname (the actual backend host for this service hasn't been created in production yet, since we are several months away from go live), which
actually was our main problem. What do you think about this approach instead? Preferably this would be a built in feature in Varnish, with a setting "disabled = true" or similar in the backend definition, and then it would not require any host or ip to be
configured.</span></div>
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