I have a free account on Azure through Microsoft Imagine and I make sample windows app; just send name to a database and it works correctly, but the problem is when I set the server firewall and add my IP if my IP changed, my app doesn't work till adding my new IP.
Is there any way to solve this problem.
You can either open up azure to allow ALL IP addresses or pay for an ISP that offers a static IP address.
If you opened up the firewall, then I suggest you add to what your sending a password or something so that the server knows it's you. If it's really important, then also think about encryption of that message.
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Recently we observed that the IPs have enlarged in MS docs and will continue to do so in future. To come around with a feasible solution and not contact FIREWALL team everytime when there is new IP inclusionin MS docs IP Whitelisting we plan to implement APIM for static IP.
But the logic app we have has a trigger when a file arrives on SFTP location we wonder how to achive this via APIM. Please suggest a solution.
The link explains the IP change but we are looking for a solution to come around this.
Regards,
Piku
By Adding Virtual Public IP of your API management to your logic ap IP specific ranges, that way you can secure your logic app.
If you want to Secure Logic app through Private Virtual IP go through this document.
I am very new to Cloudflare. So please bear with me. I need to access my website (hosted in Microsoft Azure - App Services) via IP address instead of the domain name.
To do this, I need to add HOST=www.mydomain.com into the HTTP header when requesting the website via IP address.
I heard it can be solved via Cloudflare, but the person I asked will not elaborate further. Is it possible? If yes, what service should I purchase? Any manual or instruction will be appreciated.
If Cloudflare isn't possible, do you have any service recommendations?
Thanks :)
The reason the host header is needed is because Azure App Services are multi-tenant (multiple apps on a single IP) by default. So, the server needs some way to know where to route your request to (the host name). In addition, IPs are not guaranteed to be static (they can change as you scale for instance).
It should be possible to secure a single static IP address using the following method -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/overview-inbound-outbound-ips#get-a-static-inbound-ip
What is unclear is whether or not this IP would also be dedicated (meaning only your domain would use it). This is what would be required in order to allow you to access the app service without a hostname specified.
Cloudflare will not solve this issue, as it sits at the DNS layer (domain name access). Accessing a server via IP would bypass Cloudflare entirely.
I am trying to implement a azure vpn to have a better understanding of the functionality of this resource.
Following azure documentation here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/openvpn-azure-ad-tenant
I am able to create all the resources and configure the azure vpn client.
I Downloaded the client and azure vpn, and imported the xml file and tried to connect.
Everything worked fine as I was able to login with my azure credential and connect to the vpn.
But here is the bit that I am a bit confused about.
Once the vpn established the connection, I got a IP address. so I thought that if I go on google to check my IP address, I would get the vpn address, but what I am seeing is my personal ip.
So maybe somebody can help me to understand how can I make sure that the vpn I am connecting to is actually working and generating a tunnel connection from my pc to azure AAD?
Please if my question Is not 100% clear, just ask for more information.
Thank you very much for your help
Azure P2S VPN connections do not support forced tunnelling so you will still be routing to the Internet from your local public IP address and not via Azure.
For testing, if you deploy a private resource in Azure such as a virtual machine then you should be able to access it via it's private IP address to confirm your VPN is working correctly.
I'm trying to run a dedicated game server on a VM.
I did it on a pc at home by opening the port in the firewall and the router.
but when I try it on the VM it is being blocked by "DefaultRule_DenyAllInBound", even though I created a rule with higher Priority to allow it.
am I missing something?
turns out the source port need to be *
I know your issue was inbound connectivity testing and you have a public IP associated to your NIC. I figured it was good info to share anyhow.
If you do not have a Public IP associated with your NIC you might get denied. I for example was trying to connect out via SMBv3 to a an Azure Storage account via Azure default internet access (no Public IP associated to my NIC) and got the same message. I added a Public IP to my NIC and then go out without issue.
I set up a simple asp.net web forms test site for learning Azure, with a simple DB. Works fine locally. I deployed it to Azure. Then went through learning curve on the need to separately deploy the DB, link the resource, check connection strings and so on.
There's an issue, where the program on the site gets an error. I'm going through many paths to try to diagnose it. This question is about one specific path.
Several articles say that for the website to use the DB, I have to add the IP address of the website to the allowed IP addresses of the DB server.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-create-configure/
However, I can't find the IP address for my FREE Azure website. When I researched this, it looks like there is no available fixed IP address for free websites.
So either:
1) I need to know where to get the IP address for the free website, or
2) there is some way to use Azure SQL in free websites without having to
designate an allowed IP address, or
3) something completely different.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Thanks!
UPDATE: Below is all I see on the database configuration page, i.e. no firewall rules. However, I became convinced that the "Allowed IP Address" requirement must be finessed automagically in Azure, and so that was likely NOT the problem, which made me look more closely at the connection string, which WAS the problem. Basically one day of newbie learning curve, which I'll have to sleep on and try to understand more tomorrow.
There's an option to allow Azure services when you configure the database firewall. Check if that's checked. Also, posting the actual error message will help.
You don't need to do that for things that are hosted within the Azure platform.
Under the Azure SQL Server Firewall (Preview Portal) settings, ensure that the Allow access to Azure services is turned on:
Alternatively, via the Old Portal, the setting is found via:
Databases -> Servers -> Configure