WCF - The message could not be dispatched because the service at the endpoint address … is unavailable for the protocol of the address

Question

Ok, can I vent?? I am so sick and tired of this. I\'m working away most of the day and the WCF services are working great. Next time I run my app and make a WCF call, bam! th

Answer 1

Sounds Net.Tcp Listener Adapter service is being killed by some process or exception being throw by the web service putting the channel in a faulted state.

Have you tried setting the startup type of the service to automatic and recovery to restart service on first and second failure?

I doubt it very much that there is a bug in wcf net.tcp channel layer. If the listener is running and tcp socket no longer available i would suggest you look into the code especially around the exception handling strategy and have a peek into the iis request logs.