Re: Use of host headers fails after 4 hours

From: Ken Schaefer (kenREMOVE_at_THISadopenstatic.com)
Date: 12/13/04


Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:13:42 +1100

If ASP or ASP.NET is crashing, then this would affect all ASP.NET/ASP pages,
not just pages in sites that use host-headers.

If you think ASP is crashing/hanging, and you are getting no errors in IIS
log -or- in the Event Viewer, then I suggest you use IISState tool to debug
this issue:
http://www.iisfaq.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2513

Cheers
Ken

"WillieWorstel" <willieworstel@spam.la> wrote in message
news:%23d3op8J4EHA.1564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 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
> bericht news:upxb33G4EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> "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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