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• 08-29-2008, 2:30 PM

  AaronR Joined on 08-29-2008, 6:22 PM Posts 4

  IP address specification Reply Contact Hi, I am new here and this may be in the wrong area, but it involves IIS 6! and ASP.net. I currently have a shared webhost that answers to a single IP albeit I would like all outbound traffic to leave from a single IP someone mentioned this may be possible via IIS manager, can anyone help point me towards a guide or enlighten me if this is possible?   The purpose behind doing this is so that I can open up a rule on my firewall that ONLY allows one IP instead of "any" also if this doesnt seem possible please let me know so I stop searching!   thanks in advance for your time and effort!

• 08-29-2008, 11:39 PM

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  Paul Lynch Joined on 05-24-2006, 9:41 AM Posts 93	Re: IP address specification Reply Contact Hi, You can force IIS to bind to a single IP address. This is how : Setting metabase property DisableSocketPooling has no effect Regards, Paul Lynch http://www.iisadmin.co.uk

• 09-03-2008, 10:46 AM

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  AaronR Joined on 08-29-2008, 6:22 PM Posts 4	Re: IP address specification Reply Contact  They said that I am unable to do that, is there any other way that you can think of?

• 09-03-2008, 11:53 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Lawrenceville, NJ Posts 4,038

  Re: IP address specification Reply Contact AaronR: I currently have a shared webhost that answers to a single IP albeit I would like all outbound traffic to leave from a single IP someone mentioned this may be possible via IIS manager, can anyone help point me towards a guide or enlighten me if this is possible? What type of outbound traffic do you mean?  What IP? AaronR: The purpose behind doing this is so that I can open up a rule on my firewall that ONLY allows one IP instead of "any" What firewall?  On your local PC or the shared host? Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 09-03-2008, 12:02 PM

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  AaronR Joined on 08-29-2008, 6:22 PM Posts 4

  Re: IP address specification Reply Contact  The outbound traffic will travel like this. browser > webserver > through firewall > access local database and get data  > back out through firewall > to users browser. (is that what you were referring to?)   The firewall is on the demarc of the local network taht allows traffic in + out I want shared host to use one IP so I can lock down this traffic through my firewall, otherwise I have to specify "any" which I dont like, I'm currently looking to be able to  specify a range of their shared hosts which I'm still uncomfortable with but i feel a little more comfortable with that, I would still much rather have a single IP but I think I would need to upgrade my service which I don't believe is an option...

• 09-03-2008, 12:12 PM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Lawrenceville, NJ Posts 4,038	Re: IP address specification Reply Contact Is there a single IP assigned to your site?  If so, then all traffic should be on that IP. Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 09-03-2008, 12:18 PM

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  AaronR Joined on 08-29-2008, 6:22 PM Posts 4	Re: IP address specification Reply Contact  It only answers to a single IP (thats how I set up DNS) but it will not send data out of the same IP it uses a shared pool of host IP's

• 09-03-2008, 12:41 PM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Lawrenceville, NJ Posts 4,038	Re: IP address specification Reply Contact If that's what is happening then there is nothing you can control. Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/