Re: Use of host headers fails after 4 hours

From: Egbert Nierop \(MVP for IIS\) (egbert_nierop_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:11:22 +0100

"WillieWorstel" <willieworstel@spam.la> wrote in message
news:eirmuhE4EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Windows 2003 (Standard Edition) webserver that is a standalone
> server. It has the latest updates and patches. It hosts a few subdomain
> sites of the companies domain, e.g. office.mydomain.com and
> customers.mydomain.com. There a 3 websites hosted in total. The third is a
> site that explains customers that they used an incorrect hostname or do
> not support host headers in their browser.

Anything in the event/application log shows up?

> If I reset the server, all works fine for about 4 hours. Thereafter only
> the basic page is accessible by incorrect hostname or IP-address. The
> subdomains defined in the host headers of the websites no longer respond.
> If I look in the logs of IIS, it says it looked up the default page
> (default.asp) but didn't transfer any content or images. Firefox tells me
> the document contains no data.
>
> My sites ares setup as:
> URL: office.mydomain.com
> Website: 001Office
> Default doc: default.asp, index.html
> Access: Any IP, anonymous allowed
> Hostheader: port 80, office.mydomain.com, (any available address)
>
> URL: customer.mydomain.com
> Website: 002Customer
> Default doc: default.asp, index.html
> Access: Any IP, anonymous allowed
> Hostheader: port 80, customer.mydomain.com, (any available address)
>
> URL: none
> Website: 003Failure
> Default doc: default.asp, index.html
> Access: Any IP, anonymous allowed
> Hostheader: port 80, (no host header), (any available address)
>
> What can be wrong. All updates are applied, even with only a plain HTML
> index.html file and all websites pointing to the 003Failure directory, and
> Everyone full control on the NTFS permissions, the webserver fails after a
> few hours. Also tried a different router and public IP address, but
> without any improvement (the Linux Apache server does not fail on the same
> routers and LAN port).
>
>
> Jeroen
>

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