"Matt Bartholomew" wrote:

> I also have started showing strange ODBC link failures on May 4th of 2005.
> I'm running asp pages on w2k3 standard server. No known changes have been
> made to the system prior to this error.
>
> The initial connection to any of these web pages works great, but if the
> refresh or f5 key is pressed, the user is presented with the following error
> message:
>
> Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Communication link failure
> /index.asp, line 29
>
> The user must wait about 5-7 seconds before the page can refresh again. It
> is almost like a timer has been enabled on my web server. Maybe a windows
> patch turned something on recently?
>
> I've also included two snippets from my iis log files:
>
> nc050504.log:192.168.115.155 - - [04/May/2005:14:53:49 -0500] "GET
> /about/s_thomp.asp?|11|80004005|[Microsoft][ODBC_SQL_Server_Driver]Communication_link_failure HTTP/1.1" 500 533
>
> nc050506.log:192.168.115.152 - - [06/May/2005:09:33:38 -0500] "GET
> /reports/reports.asp?|11|80004005|[Microsoft][ODBC_SQL_Server_Driver]Communication_link_failure HTTP/1.1" 500 535
>
>
> Regards,
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