An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Hi,

I'm running a website using MSSQL 2000. Sometimes (not always) I get this error message on the website:

A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)

I have also websites running with MySQL and those don't have this problem.
I searched google but I couldn't find usefull information on this problem.

Someone who knows what's going on here ?

All I've found untill now is that it has something to do with the server not responding within a certain time, and thus assuming the connection was closed.

I can't find how I can just let it reconnect again in stead of giving me this error message?