ASP can't connect to DB on new iis 6.0 install

Loaded up a new server with w2k3 and installed app center and iis 6.0. Synchronized the server and it got all of my web files from the other server fine. In "Manage Server" console, I have Internet Data Connector, ASP, ASP.NET, FP2002 extensions & SSI all enabled. I can pull up a HTML file fine and I can also pull up an asp page that does not connect to a database.

We can telnet to the port of two different db servers that we have tried to connect to.

We have entries in the hosts file for the db servers.

I rebooted one time and was able to connect to the database for about five minutes. Hit another asp page and whammo... db connection was gone again. But... the settings all appear to have stayed the same (also mathing the parent server in the app center cluster).

Any ideas what else I can check? I'm spending way too much time playing with this and this last little reboot tease is not helping my patience.

Thanks all.

There seems to be a shortage of details here, like what kind of db are you trying to connect to, what kind of code is doing the connection, and what kind of errors you get?

Trying to connect to SQL Server 2000. This is nothing new for these web servers other than we just upgraded from win2k server to win2k3 server. This particular server, rather than upgrading, we did a fresh install.

And because we are using App Center and the files all synched up when we got that running... it's using the same ASP code and connecting to the same db server as the cluster controller server that connects to the db without a problem.

Again, the weird thing is that I've seen it connect for a few minutes and then fail, but have not been able to reproduce that. And, I can telnet into the db server's port from this web server (server is in our dmz. db is inside).

I hope that helps. Thanks much for your help.

I guess check the server's event logs for any clues? Maybe someone that knows clusters can jump in.

Reinstalled IIS and App Center and one of our guys moved the network connection down to a different nic card (apparently there were two cards on this box) and it is now working fine. FYI.

I'm glad to hear that you got it going, I'm quite useless with cluster configurations