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    Drop pseudo-automatic support for multihomed backends and require · 970270a5
    Poul-Henning Kamp authored
    clear expression of intent in VCL.
    
    We now fail backend hostnames that resolve to multiple IPv4 or multiple
    IPv6 addresses, in other words, you cannot use "cnn.com" as a backend
    hostname specification without the compiler yelling at you:
    
        % ./varnishd -d -d -b cnn.com -a :8080
        Backend host "cnn.com": resolves to multiple IPv4 addresses.
        Only one address is allowed.
        Please specify which exact address you want to use, we found these:
    	    64.236.16.20
    	    64.236.16.52
    	    64.236.24.12
    	    64.236.29.120
        [...]
        VCL compilation failed
    
    However, you _can_ use a hostname that resolves to both an IPv4 and
    an IPv6 address, and the new paramter "prefer_ipv6" will determine
    which one we try first in such cases.
    
    The other part of this change is that we now do the DNS lookup at
    VCL compiletime, and only then.
    
    If your backend's DNS record (or /etc/hosts entry) changes IP#, you
    must reload your VCL code to notify varnish.
    
    Finer technical points:
    
    We build a bytestring representation of the sockaddr's in VCC and
    include them in the concept of backend identity, for an existing
    backend (+ connections) to be reused for a new VCL the backend must
    now be defined exactly the same way AND have the same resolved
    IPv4/IPv6 addresses.
    
    Since we never muck about with the address in the backend struct
    anymore, it's static for the life of the struct backend instance,
    we can simplify and eliminate the locking dance around our connection
    attempts.
    
    Also eliminate the struct vrt_backend inclusion in struct backend,
    and instead make the relevat fields full-blown members of struct
    backend.  This eliminates a number of TRUST_ME() calls.
    
    This is the companion commit to #2934 which prepared the VCL compiler.
    
    
    git-svn-id: http://www.varnish-cache.org/svn/trunk@2936 d4fa192b-c00b-0410-8231-f00ffab90ce4
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