Load Balance Problem

I am setting up Network Load Balancing and everything appears to be
working except I am having one issue. I have 2 hosts set up for load
balancing and IIS set up on each. I tried various client machines and
verified that they were alternating which host they were connecting
to.
I then had a client connect to a web page on host 1, and then stopped
host 1 in NLB Manager. What I expected to happen was that the client
would then connect to host 2 for web requests. What I found though is
that it must still be trying to connect to host 1 (now offline)
because I was getting a page not found error.

Is this the downfall of using NLB, that a client that is currently
connected to a host that fails will still try to connect to the failed
host?

 

Hello Brian,

Your post will be well suited for the clustering forum
microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering,

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Isaac Oben [MCTIP:EA, MCSE]
<brian_altman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am setting up Network Load Balancing and everything appears to be
> working except I am having one issue. I have 2 hosts set up for load
> balancing and IIS set up on each. I tried various client machines and
> verified that they were alternating which host they were connecting
> to.
> I then had a client connect to a web page on host 1, and then stopped
> host 1 in NLB Manager. What I expected to happen was that the client
> would then connect to host 2 for web requests. What I found though is
> that it must still be trying to connect to host 1 (now offline)
> because I was getting a page not found error.
>
> Is this the downfall of using NLB, that a client that is currently
> connected to a host that fails will still try to connect to the failed
> host?
>