> On Jun 9, 6:31 pm, "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)"
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> <onsit...[ at ]community.nospam> wrote:
> > "Anatoly Nazarenko" <Anatoly Nazare...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > messagenews:1DECFA62-3585-44C4-B1E1-A0CB7C70A3D6[ at ]microsoft.com...
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> > > I have 2 Win2k3 (+SP2) servers withWSUS3.0. One of them (e.g.
> > > server1.mydomain) downloads updates from the Microsoft site, second (e.g.
> > > server2.mydomain) was configured as a downstreamserver(not a replica).
> > >Upstreamworks well, without any errors. But I have got the
> > > synchronization
> > > error message from the downstream:
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> > > Status: Failed
> > > Result:Unabletoresolvethespecifiedupstreamserver. Details ->
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> > > WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found.
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> > The simple answer here is that server2.mydomain cannot find the desired
> > resources at server1.mydomain because the configured destination hostname is
> > not being resolved, by *WSUS*, to the correct IP Address.
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> > > My synchronization options:
> > >Servername: server1.mydomain
> > > Port number: 80
> > > Servers are in the same network without proxies, firewalls etc. (server1 -
> > > domain controller, server2 - standalone, workgroup member).
> > > Ping from server2 to the server1.mydomain works fine,
> > > nslookup server1.mydomain shows correct IP address.
> > > WWW service on the server1 is working (defaultserver, port 80).
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> > One gotcha that sometimes affects these type of diagnostics is that while
> > 'nslookup' may return valid information, the internal calls through the APIs
> > toresolvea hostname to an IP Address may not be working correctly.
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> > Using Internet Explorer on server2, can you successfully browse to these
> > URLs?
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http://server1.mydomain/iuident.cab>
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http://server1.mydomain/simpleauthwebservice/simpleauth.asmx>
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http://server1.mydomain/serversyncwebservice/serversyncwebservice.asmx>
> > --
> > Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP
> > IndependentWSUSEvangelist
> > MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007)
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D09...>
> > Everything you need forWSUSis at
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/...>
> > And, almost everything else is at
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com> > ....
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> Is there an actual answer for this problem? I started having it
> today, right after I upgraded to 3.0. I can browse successfully to
> the first URL in your list, but none of the others.- Hide quoted text -
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