[master] d26b2b7 document what the default backend is

Nils Goroll nils.goroll at uplex.de
Sat May 14 19:37:05 CEST 2016


commit d26b2b7d17185a77784d906f790a378617d12678
Author: Nils Goroll <nils.goroll at uplex.de>
Date:   Sat May 14 19:34:44 2016 +0200

    document what the default backend is

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vcl-backends.rst b/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vcl-backends.rst
index b44ba9c..5844891 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vcl-backends.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/users-guide/vcl-backends.rst
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ really arbitrary data. You want to send mobile devices to a different
 backend? No problem. ``if (req.http.User-agent ~ /mobile/) ..`` should do the
 trick.
 
+Without an explicit backend selection, varnish will continue using
+the `default` backend. If there is no backend named `default`, the
+first backend found in the vcl will be used as the default backend.
+
 
 Backends and virtual hosts in Varnish
 -------------------------------------



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