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Changing connection timeouts to your origin
Last updated April 30, 2019
Connection timeouts to your origin server control how long Fastly will wait for a response from your origin server before exiting with an error. Changing the connection timeout is a good way to start troubleshooting 503 backend read errors. Follow the steps below to change the connection timeouts to your origin server:
- Log in to the Fastly web interface and click the Configure link.
- From the service menu, select the appropriate service.
- Click the Edit configuration button and then select Clone active. The Domains page appears.
- Click the Origins link. The Origins page appears.
- Click the link of the Host that you want to edit. The Edit this host page appears.
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Click the Advanced options link.
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Type the new timeout in the appropriate field of the Timeouts section.
NOTE: Fastly enforces a 60 second timeout between nodes unless you're passing requests in
vcl_recv
. - Click the Update button.
TIP: Additional techniques that help you gain insights into your service configurations can be found in our debugging guides.