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SharePoint Central Admin only available via Ip, not hostname

Hi,

We have a SP2007 farm for staging.
Suddenly the CA is not longer available when using the hostname, but only via the IP.

So:

https://servername:port does not work ('page canot be displayed'

but

http://IP_address:port, works fine and the CA is displayed.

Whjat could be the root cause of this behaviour?

Thanks

Try and go to command prompt and run ipconfig/flushdns
then try the sharepoint site again.

ASKER

Tx for the suggestion, but it didn't help.
I suspect a problem at the IIS level (running IIS 6 on Win Serv 2003)

try and ping server.local.com does it give the local ip address?

ASKER

it does

have you tried an iisreset

ASKER

of course ;-)
(and the machine has also been restarted)

alternate access mapping correct?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261814(office.12).aspx

ASKER

i suppose, that didn't change
i have two configured (like on our live farm)

https://servername:port to https://servername.local.com:port
https://servername.local.com:port to https://servername.local.com:port

ASKER

anyone else?

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problem was due to wrong host header setting in IIS6
we've fixed in with cscript.exe