COMMAND
IIS 4.0 And Proxy 2.0 (it may occur with IIS 3.0 too)
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
Win NT
PROBLEM
Wayne Bardowell posted following. It has been confirmed that IIS
and proxy 2.0 with Multiple Ip addresses bound to Nic card will
cause an access violation and bring the server to it''s knees.
Bill Landry confirmed that even with a single IP address; the
combination of IIS 4.0 and MS Proxy 2.0 is not a good working
solution. Web sites with more then a couple of graphics will
download to the browser very slowly, if at all.
According to Microsoft, if Socks is enabled (the default), and the
computer has more than one IP address bound to the internal
network adapter, an access violation or Dr. Watson error may
occur. This problem may occur even if the Socks service is not
used by any clients. This problem occurs due to corruption in the
process heap.
SOLUTION
This issue will be addressed with SP4. Check out KB 183755 that
speaks about this problem. You may uninstall IIS 4.0 and go back
to IIS 3.0 in order for the WebProxy to work properly. To work
around this problem, you can disable the SOCKS service. To do
this, refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article ID
Q173961. Anyone experiencing the 'IIS4 & Proxy 2.0' bug should
be aware that simply un-installing IIS4 does not altogether remove
the problem.