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anonymous731

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:33 pm
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On some of our internal IIS servers, when someone browses
to them (even to a static HTML file that has "Hello" as
the only content) the URL address bar switches to
hostname.domain.com. This happens even if we browse
to "hostname" or the server's IP address. This also
happens from the server itself, if no proxy is setup,
etc. No redirections exist in the web content.

Is there some setting within IIS that is causing this
behavior? We would rather the URL just show hostname for
our internal sites. This is only happening on some
servers, but we can't identify what is different between
them that would cause this.

TIA

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tdevere

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 5:51 am
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Hello David,

I would suggest the following:

get a network trace of the problem and see if there's any redirection /
infomation being sent back to the client...

Also, when you say this only happens on some servers, do you mean that this
problem only happens to some IIS servers? of on some client end machines
while you are testing?

The only thing I could think of doing this would be some type of content
type redirection, which would be seen with a network trace (or the use of
wfetch - resource kit).

Are you using host headers?

Does this happen for each site on the box?

Did this ever not work?

Any other information?

Thank you,

Tony DeVere [MSFT]
Microsoft IIS
Newsgroup Support
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davidadner

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:56 pm
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Answers inline.

"[Tony Devere]" wrote:
 >
 > get a network trace of the problem and see if there's any redirection /
 > infomation being sent back to the client...

This will be one of my next steps.

 > Also, when you say this only happens on some servers, do you mean that this
 > problem only happens to some IIS servers? of on some client end machines
 > while you are testing?

Just IIS servers, regardless of client. It even occurs from the servers
themselves, when pointing to its local IP address, localhost, or
hostname. Both IIS 4 and 5.

 > The only thing I could think of doing this would be some type of content
 > type redirection, which would be seen with a network trace (or the use of
 > wfetch - resource kit).

That was my thought originally, too, but I'm promised no content
redirection is in place.

 > Are you using host headers?

Not that I can see when I view the site's properties.

 > Does this happen for each site on the box?

Yes. I even created a brand new, vanilla site and put a single static
..HTML file that just says "This is a test" in it, and it added the
domain name (company.com) to the URL when I browsed to it.

 > Did this ever not work?

It did not used to do this, but, of course, no one can tell me what
changed when this started happening.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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tdevere

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:47 am
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Hello David,


If the proxy isn't setup can you get this to work?

I am really looking forward to the network trace results...


Thank you,

Tony DeVere [MSFT]
Microsoft IIS
Newsgroup Support
tdevere.TakeThisOut@online.microsoft.com

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davidadner

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 1:26 pm
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We installed a vanilla 2000 system that's never been configured to use a
proxy server and it still happens.

An update, on one of the servers, the behavior has magically stopped.
The server admin doesn't know what he did, but I've asked for a detailed
list of everything he did to see if we can identify the cause.

"[Tony Devere]" wrote:
 >
 > Hello David,
 >
 > If the proxy isn't setup can you get this to work?
 >
 > I am really looking forward to the network trace results...
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > Tony DeVere [MSFT]
 > Microsoft IIS
 > Newsgroup Support
 > tdevere.RemoveThis@online.microsoft.com
 >
 > "Please do not send email directly to this alias. This is our online
 > account name for newsgroup participation only."
 >
 > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 > You assume all risk for your use. © 2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights
 > reserved.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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tdevere

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:40 pm
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Hello David,


Here's what I know:

When the client makes a request, the name must be resolved by DNS. The IP
has been found, the job of TCP is at work to estiblish a connection. This
is working of course...

After TCP is estiblished, then we can lay out HTTP. IIS receives the HTTP
traffic and passess it through the ISAPI filters list. After each filter
has it's turn with the data then we pass off the request to the correct web
site. (Checking the web sites IP's and host headers etc...)

We will log what the result of that request was in the IIS log files for
that web site. There you will see, if you received a 200 -OK or 302- Object
moved redirect.. or some other message.

What must be happening, is somehow, someway, the resoultion of the name/ip
is being sent as an external request and DNS is picking it up. There are
ways to determine if this is happening... (have we made sure the lmhost
file isn't at fault here?) What happens if we ping thd local netbios name?
It sounds like a network config issue... All this can be proved as I've
stated, with a network trace.

Please consider posting this message in the windows server product group as
well for their input...

(all information in this post is a very high overview of what happens, but
was intended only to provided a picture of the internal operations of IIS)


Thank you,

Tony DeVere [MSFT]
Microsoft IIS
Newsgroup Support
tdevere.TakeThisOut@online.microsoft.com

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tdevere

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:27 am
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I must be wrong...

Let's review...

If you browse by IP Address... the problem occurs. I think this rules out
the Name Res issue.

So I am going back to the drawing board.

I'll post again soon.

Thank you,

Tony DeVere [MSFT]
Microsoft IIS
Newsgroup Support
tdevere.RemoveThis@online.microsoft.com

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account name for newsgroup participation only."

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