[THIN] OT - Microsoft NLB

Sorry for the off-topic question but I'm hoping someone can clear the fog.
We are setting up a system that has two W2K3 servers configured to utilize
Microsoft NLB.  Does the NLB logic to determine if a server is "available"
for connections take into account the port of which the client is trying to
connect on?  Say they are web servers and the WWW service crashes on one but
the server is otherwise running, when a browser is trying to connect via the
NLB name, is it possible for it to get routed to the server where the WWW
service is down? The same for other custom apps, if it isn't running on one
of the servers and the client tries to connect via NLB name and port, will
the NLB logic try to connect it to the server where the app is down and
therefore has less network connections?

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Thanks,
Scott D.

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