Event ID 16

Have this interesting situation. Three Windows 2003 servers behind a
firewall with private 192.168.x.y IP numbers consistently get the eventid 16
mentioned, and fail to update automatically. Manual connections work fine
with no problems or issues. I've followed several suggestions from different
newsgroups and Technet, none of the suggestions have solved the issue. There
is no WSUS server in our site, and all servers go to the microsoft update
site. All servers in the domain with public IP numbers update with no
problems. These three fail, the common link being private addresses.
Any suggestions, pointers to resolution, thoughts appreciated
Bill

How do I reset Windows Update components?:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058


Bill wrote:
> Have this interesting situation. Three Windows 2003 servers behind a
> firewall with private 192.168.x.y IP numbers consistently get the eventid
> 16
> mentioned, and fail to update automatically. Manual connections work fine
> with no problems or issues. I've followed several suggestions from
> different
> newsgroups and Technet, none of the suggestions have solved the issue.
> There
> is no WSUS server in our site, and all servers go to the microsoft update
> site. All servers in the domain with public IP numbers update with no
> problems. These three fail, the common link being private addresses.
> Any suggestions, pointers to resolution, thoughts appreciated
> Bill

Thanks for the lead, however, this process didn't resolve the problem. I
still receive an error when auto connecting to WUS. Event ID 16 continues to
be logged and no updates are done. Does anyone else have a thought?
thanks
Bill

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> How do I reset Windows Update components?:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058
>
>
> Bill wrote:
>> Have this interesting situation. Three Windows 2003 servers behind a
>> firewall with private 192.168.x.y IP numbers consistently get the eventid
>> 16
>> mentioned, and fail to update automatically. Manual connections work fine
>> with no problems or issues. I've followed several suggestions from
>> different
>> newsgroups and Technet, none of the suggestions have solved the issue.
>> There
>> is no WSUS server in our site, and all servers go to the microsoft update
>> site. All servers in the domain with public IP numbers update with no
>> problems. These three fail, the common link being private addresses.
>> Any suggestions, pointers to resolution, thoughts appreciated
>> Bill
>