I can report same thing. Firewall clients request for connect fails if there are unusual requests to dns on ISA server. However i didnt have time to do more sniffing when such sitiation happened so i am not confident what is causing it. But your experience + problem reported from M$ are creating some pattern about possible problem to be aware of. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8.38 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: URGENT - FW Client cannot connect to ISA http://www.ISAserver.org Hi William, There's a chance its related to the following. AFAIK, there is no fix :-( ============== Jorgen Junior Member Member # 8800 posted November 15, 2002 12:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEWS FLASH ** Microsoft has managed to reproduce our problem in their lab AND they have managed to find the cause.. no cure yet though :-( IF you have UDP based publishing (any UPD not just DNS) AND a Site and Content filter containing FQDN the following happens; Incoming UDP requests are checked against the Site and Content rules by attempting to do a reverse lookup on the incoming IP (to find a FQDN to match against the IP). If this for some reason fails (like the requesting IP not being in a reverse zone) then the ISA tries to make a NBTSTAT query against the remote IP to find the FQDN. Once it has succeded, failed or timed-out on the incoming request it will then process the request. This can take some time (at least on my side we just drop incoming netbios so those will have to timeout) and during that time the ISA is gobbling up UDP connections. With heavy traffic this will at times cause the pool of available UDP mapppings to be full so that incoming requests first have to wait for another request to make it through the S&S rules before itself can start the path through! So if; - you have a remote client that is not in a reverse zone and that can not be resolved by nbtstat AND if it is re-requesting the DNS information after say 5 seconds - then you can easily end up in a situation where - the requests are being held pending, in wait for a process slot, while the ISA is trying to resolve the FQDN of a previous request FROM THE SAME MACHINE! So the good news is that they know why and the bad news is that it sounds like it is a fundamental change that needs to be done! Possible workaround, no S&S rules! Not sure I want to go that way.... Was this clear? If not, drop me a line and I'll try again.... /Jörgen =================================== HTH, Tom Thomas W Shinder www.isaserver.org/shinder http://tinyurl.com/1jq1 http://tinyurl.com/1llp -----Original Message----- From: William Robertson [mailto:robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:06 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] URGENT - FW Client cannot connect to ISA http://www.ISAserver.org Hi there Yesterday I had some SERIOUS problems on my network with regards to my Firewall Clients not being able to connect to the ISA Server. I als had EXTREME issues with my DNS Servers unable to do lookups and the bottom line is that no FIREWALL SERVICE activity was permitted through the ISA Server. In an attempt to resolve the problem I removed and reinstalled ISA Server last night. After this drastic step all seemed well. But now this morning, again all of a suddent, the Firewall clients are again reporting the following when I click on Update Now: The server is not responding when client requests an update. Possible causes: - The server is not an ISA Server. - The server is down. Now I have confirmed that I can NSLOOKUP the ISA Server and I can connect just fine to it. I have installed ISA SP1 as well as the 2 hotfixes (isahf174 & isahf177). Any ideas please?!?!?!?!? 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