Description:
The start address <sts3://XXXXX:2000/contentdbid={5e4c7cac-eb31-42a6-b88d-6596d285532e}> cannot be crawled.

Context: Application ‘Search index file on the search server’, Catalog ‘Search’

Details:
                The object was not found.   (0×80041201)

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Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
Category: Gatherer
Event ID: 2436

Description:
The start address <sts3://[site url]/contentdbid={[GUID]}> cannot be crawled.

Context: Application ‘Search index file on the search server’, Catalog ‘Search’

Details:
             The object was not found.  (0×80041201)

For this error I found many different posts regarding this issue, and none really solved my problem. Example posts: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mcotw/archive/2007/01/20/wssv3-search-small-business-server-amp-dns.aspx or http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/annw/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=2 Both great resources for information usably.

My issue ended up being with the alternate access mappings. Changed the mapping from the http://computername:2000/ to http://localhost:2000/, solved the issue. Now I wouldn’t say this would be acceptable in most cases but it worked for this client. I would of recommended something like http://ssp.domain.com/. Anyway I would check your mappings first before trying the other solutions.

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