10061 is a Winsock error tht ISA has no control of whatsoever. It's generated by Winsock (not ISA) when the upstream host actively refuses the connection (sends a RST). The only way to show that this is actually happening is to gather a packat capture while you try to repro the behavior. ________________________________ From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Stuart Tonge Sent: Wed 4/19/2006 4:24 AM To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [isalist] ISA server problem - connection refused. Hi all. I have an ISA server 2004 box deployed as a web proxy. I have set an allow any-any rule to stop the firewall interfering. I have my users proxying through this box to the web. It works 95% of the time. The rest of the time, i get a 10061 connection refused error. If i refresh the page, it generally refreshes the first time. This happens on many sites & has been seen nmultiple times on microsoft.com, bbc.co.uk, isaserver.org. Sometimes images do not load on a page, but this is fairly rare, and some of the images may load. Some will load, some will not. I have tried to isolate 'problem sites' but this has not worked - the error seems totally random. The only common occurance I have noted is that after one error, some clients - not all - seem to have trouble connecting to any site for the next 30-60 seconds, instead receiving the error over and over. I have only seen this on 2 of 40 clients. I have tried disabling all web filter add-ins, caching, ip routing, ip filtering, etc. Basically i've tried every button i can find in ISA 2004! nothing makes the problem better. It's also hard to test since it's intermittent. The ISA server is directly connected to a firewall which filters traffic, but this device works fine 100% of the time when web traffic passed via it instead of ISA. ISA is reporting no errors in the console. There are no errors in the syslogs. Does anyone have any ideas short of uninstalling ISA & getting a refund? Thanks, Stuart Tonge Pink Fish I.T. LTD Network Architect stuart.tonge@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pink-fish.tv 01302 365408 All mail to and from this domain is GFI-scanned.