title: Network path not found exception encountered randomly
body: <p>Azure .NET MVC application is encountering an exception i.e.
  &quot;The network path was not found&quot;</p>
  <p>Problem with the other queries that I searched before asking this question was that its not happening all the time, it's working as expected but this issue is occurring randomly like once every 15-25 days. It has been roughly 50 days since deployment of application on production and encountered this twice, while did not encounter this on Azure UAT environment(where low numbers of users were present).</p>
  <p>Issue is temporarily resolved by IIS reset using the command:
  iisreset</p>
  <p>Source Error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the
  current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of
  the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Stack Trace:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>[Win32Exception (0x80004005): The network path was not found]</p>
  <p>[SqlException (0x80131904): A network-related or instance-specific
  error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The
  server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance
  name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote
  connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not
  open a connection to SQL Server)]</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Any idea?</p>