Konstantin,
Interesting you bring up rewriting the module in .NET, I did just that 4 years 
ago and even made a public release, in light of some other things I’ve pushed 
out the latest source to github yesterday.  You can find it here 
https://github.com/bodrick/CosignManaged, there is currently a version that is 
specific to IIS 8+ since it targets .NET 4.5, I am currently working on pushing 
out a release that targets .NET 2.0 which will run on IIS 7
Chris

From: Konstantin Voyk [mailto:kv...@umich.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 8:14 AM
To: Yadin Flammer <y...@psu.edu>
Cc: cosign-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Cosign-discuss] Dies on IIS 8.5

Hi Yadin,
Cosign module crashes IIS pools when it cannot instantiate itself or 
communicate with Cosign server. Cosign module starts when IIS starts  - check 
configuration settings: application host config for <section name="cosign" 
overrideModeDefault="Allow" />, iis schemas for cosign schema in inetsrv, check 
if your server has access to cosign servers on cosign port ( 6663 for Umich 
servers).
And I would recommend to rewrite cosign module in .Net and make cosign module 
do not crash IIS and make configuration more flexible - configuration per web 
application but not one configuration for IIS.
Thanks,
Konstantin.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Yadin Flammer 
<y...@psu.edu<mailto:y...@psu.edu>> wrote:
All that does is take it longer to fail.  The server is unresponsive
until the pool dies and then you get the 503.  The indication is that
IIS 8.5 is trying to use all modules in the pool even when the module
are not actually called by the site?  I'll try putting in the full
configuration but it's very much not expected that if a module is not
being called that it would be crashing the pool because there is no
config for it...  If that's actually what's happening, it would seem an
enhancement is called for in the module to prevent this instability from
taking down a whole server.

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On 8/5/2015 2:23 PM, Stucky, David wrote:
> Yadin,
>
>  From my experience the Cosign module frequently crashes the application 
> pool, normally not more than 5 times per min.  I believe in IIS 7 the default 
> for Rapid Fail Protection is 5 failures in 5mins.  I know at one time I set a 
> server to 100 failures in 5mins, because known security scans were causing 
> 50+ failures in 5mins every time they ran.  It may not be the best/correct 
> solution, but it would be interesting to see if increasing the Rapid Fail 
> Protection setting on the application pool will eventually allow it to at 
> least start and stay running.  If it is a true configuration/compatibly 
> issue, I would assume increasing the rapid fail protection past 100 failures 
> will not help.  Under normal operation you should not have to set Rapid Fail 
> Protection that high.
>
> Thanks...
> David Stucky
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yadin Flammer [mailto:y...@psu.edu<mailto:y...@psu.edu>]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 9:48 AM
> To: Chris S. Motch <c...@psu.edu<mailto:c...@psu.edu>>; 
> cosign-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:cosign-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Cosign-discuss] Dies on IIS 8.5
>
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but MSXML has been in every version of Windows 
> since 2003, so I'm not sure why this would have been an issue for you, or how 
> you could have gotten it to install on 2012 given compatibility of the 12 
> year old download for version 6.  This wasn't a concern in 2008 for exactly 
> the reason that it's in the OS already, and I find nothing about it being 
> removed from 2012.  Do you have any further info on that?
>
> Thanks,
> Yadin
>
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> On 8/5/2015 7:28 AM, Chris S. Motch wrote:
>> Yadin,
>>
>> I remember having a similar issue and discovering I needed to install MSXML 
>> which is the Microsoft XML parser.  A list of versions can be found here 
>> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/269238.  I suspect that might be your 
>> issue if you do not have this installed already.
>>
>> Chris Motch
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yadin Flammer [mailto:y...@psu.edu<mailto:y...@psu.edu>]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 3:12 PM
>> To: 
>> cosign-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:cosign-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: [Cosign-discuss] Dies on IIS 8.5
>>
>> I'm trying to put Cosign on server 2012R2 for the first time, and I'm 
>> hitting a fatal issue right out of the gate.  As soon as the module is 
>> registered, IIS no longer works as the app pool dies as soon as it tries to 
>> service a http request.  I have not even configured a site to use cosign 
>> yet, so the appearance is the module is not compatible with IIS 8.5?
>>
>> Steps taken:
>> Download 3.1.1 zip for IIS7 from
>> http://cosign.sourceforge.net/download.shtml
>> Copy the src/Cosign_Schema.xml file into
>> C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\schema
>> Copy the x64 CosignModule.dll file into C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv Open an 
>> administrative command prompt and change directory to 
>> c:\windows\system32\inetsrv.
>> Enter this command:
>> appcmd install module /name:"Cosign"
>> /image:"%windir%\system32\inetsrv\CosignModule.dll"
>>
>> At that point, the expectation is that the webserver just keeps working as 
>> it has been as Cosign isn't even involved yet. Unfortunately, as I said the 
>> app pool dies because cosign causes a fatal issue.  From the Event Viewer:
>>
>> Application: The Module name Cosign path 
>> C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\CosignModule.dll returned an error from 
>> registration.  The data is the error.
>> System: Application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is being automatically disabled 
>> due to a series of failures in the process(es) serving that application pool.
>>
>> Not real helpful other than confirming what was obvious, Cosign is killing 
>> the app pool so the server is dead until the module is removed.
>>
>> I noted some things changed in the instructions, so I then added the x86 
>> .dll to SysWOW64\inetsrv, uinstalled the module, and reinstalled with appcmd 
>> install module /name:"Cosign" /image:"CosignModule.dll"
>>
>> Unfortunately this made no change, the app pool still dies as soon as a page 
>> request is made over http.  Is it really supposed to be the case the x64 
>> module goes in the 32bit directory and vice versa?
>> Why is the module causing the app pool to crash out before it's even active 
>> in a configuration?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Yadin
>>
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