Rather than talk about what the name of the directive is, I'd like to raisePlease double check then check again. This sounds a lot like a dynamic ip address issue.
the issue does workaround involved really work or not.
I have a customer who runs a lightly loaded W2K server with Apache 2.0.45 +
selected patches and every couple of hours it hangs for 10-15 minutes and
then magically recovers. During the hang the error.log is filled with
Fri Mar 12 11:50:52 2004] [warn] (720064)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
I have taken the Win32DisableAcceptEx patch from 2.0.49 and it did not help. It no longer complains, but it still hangs.
The customer used to run MS ISA server in the same box but the hang also happens consistently on a plain-vanilla W2K server with nothing else than Apache installed. No dynamic IP address, no dynamic DNS, no QoS packet scheduler... As plain as I can make it.
I notice in mpm/winnt/child.c that upon failing at AcceptEx, the accepted socket is closed, a new one is created and AcceptEx is retried. Has it helped anyone?
The listener is opened in the parent and inheritied by the child process. I would say the listening socket is still ok if the hang recovers after a period of time. Try running apache in one process mode (apache -DONE_PROCESS). I have no idea if the server will hold up under load in one process mode because I've not tested it recently, however if it does and the hang does not occur, it gives us a real big hint that the problem may be in the Windows kernel related to the listening socket being inherited.
Bill
