If you can connect just fine internally but externally is having an issue.
It is more than likely a firewall or networking issue not related to IIS
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"john03063" <john03063.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running iis 6 on win server2003. From the intranet, an asp.net 2
> application works just fine. From outside, however, it only connects about
> 30% if the time. When it connects, it works fine, but the more common
> conclusion is an error message about not being able to connect - Operation
> timed out.
>
> Any ideas??