"network location cannot be reached" error in IIS6

Question

I am troubleshooting an issue with IIS6 where all sites bound to ip addresses other than the default give an error message "network location cannot be reached" when trying to start any of these sites.

The nic has all the ip addresses configured. When I do a httpcfg query iplisten, I see only the default ip address. When I added them with httpcfg, then all the web sites stopped working so I figured I didn something wrong so I removed them.

Two questions: 1- Why are those websites refusing to start? 2- What should be in the result of httpcfg query iplisten? All ip addresses or just one?

The websites used to work fine and something has changed. I applied a few Windows updates but I am not sure if they broke anything (I doubt it.. otherwise hundreds of web hosting companies would be screaming)

Answer 1

The solution was to use httpcfg without specifying the port number.