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Feb
05 ‘The format of the specified network name is
invalid’ – IIS Error 0x800704BE
[Origin]: http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/10/24/iis-error-
0x800704BE

Posted by Stefan Richter in Windows, Amazon AWS | 35 Comments

Oh don’t you just love cryptic error messages that could mean one
hundred and one things? Yeah, me too.

So in the interest of some poor soul (maybe it’s you searching on this
topic in the year 2142 I decided to point out what resolved this issue for
me.

Background: I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS inside a

Hyper-V instance. The VM was configured with a static IP and each IIS
site was configured to bind to that IP, and that IP alone.
I transferred the VM to Amazon EC2 (using the ec2-import-instance API)
since I wanted to move away from having to maintain my own physical
hardware. Long story short, once transferred I was unable to start any of
the IIS sites, they all failed with the error ‘The format of the specified
network name is invalid – Error 0x800704BE’.

I knew that this error was likely related to IP bindings of some kind (EC2
usually expects you to use DHCP for IP address assignment since even an
elastic IP can change) so I tried binding a few IIS sites to ‘all’ IPs. Still the
sites would not start, but throw the above error.

I dug deeper and used the netsh utility (Windows commandline) to show
which the network configuration for the machine, and in particular which
IPs the HTTP service listens to:

1 netsh http show iplisten

This listed just one (the previous static) IP of my VM – this was now
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1 netsh http delete iplisten ipaddress=11.22.33.44 (where 11.22.33.4
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Next set the service up to listen to all IPs:

1 netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=0.0.0.0

I then restarted IIS using

1 1iisreset

and bingo, the sites started to work.

Hope this helps someone.

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