An Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 cluster node fails over and the HTTP service stops when you add more than 28 host headers in Internet Services Manager

In a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 clustered environment, if you try to add more than 28 host headers in the advanced properties of your site in Internet Services Manager, you may experience the following behaviors:

• On the Cluster Administrator, the HTTP virtual server is offline.
• The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service (Store.exe) stops.
• The cluster resource repeatedly fails over from one node to another.
• Events that are similar to the following are logged in the system event log:

  Event Type: Error
  Event Source: MSExchangeCluster
  Event Category: Services
  Event ID: 2132
  Date:
  Time: AM
  User: N/A
  Computer:
  Description: Exchange HTTP Virtual Server Instance - (): Cluster Service failed to get the protocol IP address and port bindings from the metabase.

  Event Type: Error
  Event Source: MSExchangeCluster
  Event Category: Services
  Event ID: 2074
  Date:
  Time: AM
  User: N/A
  Computer:
  Description: Exchange HTTP Virtual Server Instance - (): Cluster Service failed the isalive checking for the resource.

Exchange Server 2003

Service pack information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix information

To resolve this problem, obtain the August 2004 Exchange 2000 Server Post-Service Pack 3 update rollup.

Exchange 2000 Server

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Component: Exchange\CLUSTER\RESOURCE DLL

Prerequisites

Because of file dependencies, this update requires Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 3 (SP3). For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

File information

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2.