Ok, I have inherited an NT server running IIS3 with service pack 4.0, on Friday last week the server stopped serving WebPages! There was no error message when I got to the console. So I logged in check Perfmon and the system was peaked out at 100% for 5 minutes until I forced a reboot. When I checked the web service in IIS3 it showed that the pages were running, as you all know IIS3 is not an all-inclusive package. Anyway, attempting to pause, stop, or restart the web services was unsuccessful, the system responded that there was an instance of the web service running already.
I next, popped up a console-typed netstat -a and the report was about 10 pages long. So my initial thought was that the web service was over the number of allowable connections. (That was soon increased to 1,000 connections with a time out of 900 seconds.) However my web pages would not view from any link. So, I forced a cold restart.
Restart; all essential services come online without a glitch except my ASP (active