A Resolution to "All IIS web sights STOPPED" or Giving Back Just a Little

Thursday, January 31, 2008



Hello Fellow Travelers,



The IIS server wasn't taken down, but other arrangements had to be
made to continue the presentation of web pages.



The server has still been on line all this time, but every web page
had been 'stopped'. However, one could still 'Remote Desktop Connection'
into the server. As I had mentioned to you earlier, I had invested several
hours in exploring the cause of the web pages being 'stopped' to no avail.



Yes, we had planned to take the server completely off line and
completely reinstall Win03. However, I was a little frustration that I
wasn't seeing the solution to the 'stopped' challenge. With that, I decided
to spend another hour or two seeing if the challenge could be resolved.



Remembering that my partner had recently changed the IP address of the
IIS server, I started looking in that direction. Yes, the server is behind
a firewall using a private IP address; it always has been. I hacked into
the server registry and there it was. The NIC had retained the old IP as a
2nd and 3rd address and that is what IIS was looking at.



The resolution of the challenge was to simply point the 2nd and 3rd IP
retained by the NIC to the new IP. After making the change followed by a
reboot of the server, IIS brought itself back on line and began serving web
pages.



Thanks,

John A. Jackson