Re: Use of host headers fails after 4 hours

From: WillieWorstel (willieworstel_at_spam.la)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:03:59 +0100

No events are logged (only informational items that are not related to IIS).
In the IIS Logfiles it says that the respons to the default page was code
200 (OK), but the page is never processed. But here's something more
interesting:

The pages work from a virtual directory if I put them in the same host
header site as they would be from origin;
The pages work from some remote computers tried this from many remote
locations and one out of five sites work correctly;
The site works after a complete reboot of the server (for only a few minutes
to a few hours);
Plain HTML pages keep working all the time.

So it looks like ASP (.NET) crashes after some time and only gets corrected
after a complete reboot. Stopping and restarting the website in IIS Console
doesn't affect the output of IIS.

Any ideas?

Jeroen

"Egbert Nierop (MVP for IIS)" <egbert_nierop@nospam.invalid> schreef in
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> "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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