IIS suddenly ignores IPs and domain name

Hi All,

We have a (recent) problem with IIS on a 2003 server.

On the server itself, only localhost is working to access the .Net
application running on this server i.e

http://localhost is OK
http://myIP does not work
http://myMachineName does not work

Note that from external machines, all is working well.

We've noticed the problem because the server is doing some internal
calls to do asynchronous request and there were all failing.

We did not change any configuration on this machine but SP2 and some
secutity updates have been installed.

Is it a bug introduced by these updates ?
Other idea ?

Thanks
Jean-Michel

Re: IIS suddenly ignores IPs and domain name

"jmr" wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> We have a (recent) problem with IIS on a 2003 server.
>
> On the server itself, only localhost is working to access the .Net
> application running on this server i.e
>
> http://localhost is OK
> http://myIP does not work
> http://myMachineName does not work
>
> Note that from external machines, all is working well.
>
> We've noticed the problem because the server is doing some internal calls
> to do asynchronous request and there were all failing.
>
> We did not change any configuration on this machine but SP2 and some
> secutity updates have been installed.
>
> Is it a bug introduced by these updates ?

Yes. Unfortunately, Microsoft feels the same security band-aids that should
be patched over their client operating systems, also need to be applied to
servers.

You should've noticed after SP2 was installed, the default start page for IE
was changed to a "warning, IE's running in secure mode" page.

Go into the Security settings for Internet Explorer (on your server), and
reset each zone to "default;" that should fix your problems.

--
Bob Milutinovic
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Re: IIS suddenly ignores IPs and domain name

Bob Milutinovic wrote:

> Yes. Unfortunately, Microsoft feels the same security band-aids that should
> be patched over their client operating systems, also need to be applied to
> servers.
>
> You should've noticed after SP2 was installed, the default start page for IE
> was changed to a "warning, IE's running in secure mode" page.
>
> Go into the Security settings for Internet Explorer (on your server), and
> reset each zone to "default;" that should fix your problems.
>

Thanks Bob,

I've tried to reset each zone to "default" but the problem is still there.
Maybe I need to reboot the server (not cool).
I will try a reboot when nobody uses it.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel