I don't think it would be very hard to do with the vcl. If the beresp != 200 you would set a fail header and then retry it. Then just check for that header to direct to a "fail whale" cluster that serves a simple error page.
I'm sure someone can chime in with a better solution. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In some load balancers (haproxy, for example) you can create a backend > that only gets hit if all the other backends are down. A common enough > setup is to have a local apache serve a polite "oops" page on an alternate > port on the loopback. Is there some clever way to do this with Varnish? > I've read to docs and googled but can't find anything like this. If this is > possible, a doc to the right link would be awesome. > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > -- Stephen Wood www.heystephenwood.com
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