Hi! First of all I have a criticism to ISA newsgroup experts: Why do you cancel the problem, although the problem still exists? You give no feedback more, if the problem complicated!!! I hope you give a tip for the following situation: I user RPCPING tool to diagnose the problem. I used it in internal network. If I use as Exchange Server my back-end Exchange named exchbe.intra.exchtest.net, then RPCPING for all ?e 6001, 6002 and 6004 successful. Here is it: __________________________________________________________ rpcping -t ncacn_http -s exchbe.intra.exchtest.net -o RpcProxy=owa.intra.exchtest.net ?P "administrator,EXCHTEST,*" -I "administrator,exchtest,*" -H 1 -u 10 -a connect -F 3 -v 3 -e 6001 RPCPing v2.12. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002 OS Version is: 5.2 Completed 1 calls in 218 ms 4 T/S or 218.000 ms/T ____________________________________________________________ But if I use mail.intra.exchtest.net as Exchange Server in this utility, I have the following error for all 6001,6002 and 6004: rpcping -t ncacn_http -s mail.intra.exchtest.net -o RpcProxy=owa.intra.exchtest.net ?P "administrator,EXCHTEST,*1" -I "administrator,exchtest,*" -H 1 -u 10 -a connect -F 3 -v 3 -e 6001 RPCPing v2.12. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002 OS Version is: 5.1, Service Pack 2 Exception 1722 (0x000006BA) ____________________________________________________________ You know, I don?t want to publish my back-end Exchange Server in Internet. That is also not recomended RPC over HTTP in an FE/BE einvironment. I think the problem is DNS name resolution. Or not? I list my DNS configuration below and want to also a solution tip: In external DNS: mail.intra.exchtest.net 213.183.4.125 owa.intra.exchtest.net 213.183.4.125 On ISA Server: External address of ISA: 213.183.4.125 Internal address of ISA: 213.183.4.118 HOSTS file include on ISA: mail.intra.exchtest.net 213.183.4.116 owa.intra.exchtest.net 213.183.4.116 NAT mapping on Netscreen Firewall 2: NAT address for front-end exchange: 213.183.4.116 In internal DNS: A record: exchfe.intra.exchtest.net 10.10.4.1 (Front-End) A record: exchfe.intra.exchtest.net 10.10.4.2 (Back-End) A record: w3kdc.intra.exchtest.net 10.10.4.3 (Global Catalog) A record for owa.intra.exchtest.net 10.10.4.1 A record: mail.intra.exchtest.net 10.10.4.2 first MX record: mail.intra.exchtest.net points to 10.10.4.1 second MX record: mail.intra.exchtest.net points to 10.10.4.2 Best Regards Mustafa