Is it possible to limit number of connections for one IP for IIS or Web site?
There is nothing built into IIS to limit the number of connections on a per IP basis. IP's can be blocked or granted, but not throttled to connection limit. You could write code the store the IP address based on server variables, then refuse connection, but that is beyond IIS.
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I have a Website (App Service), 1 Sql Server with 2 databases on it.
Each month I randomly get an error:
Cannot open server 'myServer' requested by the login. Client with IP address 'xx.xxx.87.3' is not allowed to access the server.
To enable access, use the Windows Azure Management Portal or run sp_set_firewall_rule on the master database to create a firewall rule for this IP address or address range.
It may take up to five minutes for this change to take effect.
My question is, how do I know what application/service this IP address is?
It's not the IP address of my website and if I ping the CNAME of my database, it doesnt match this IP. But if I don't add it, my whole site doesn't work.
I must add this manually once per month, when something changes. How do I find out what this IP address is connected to?
Basically, there are 2 ways to solve your issue:
Specify Allow Azure services and resources to access this server as Yes on your SQL server firewall-config so that your SQL server will allow all Azure resources to access.
Adding all of the outbound IPs of your Azure app service into your SQL server firewall whitelist. It has a higher security level than the first way. You can find all the outbound IPs on Azure Portal here:
For several days I am experiencing that Azure Web Services is receiving many requests in seconds. Due to this Website is not able to load.
Since many days I am experiencing that Azure Web Services is receiving many requests in seconds.
You could check the request logs by enable Web Server Logging in Azure Portal. By researching the log, you could know whether the requests are from legitimate users or programs. If they are from trusted users or programs, you could scale up or out your web app to meet the large number of requests.
If the requests are from attackers, you could block these kinds of requests by configuring Dynamic IP Address Restrictions(DIPR). The DIPR feature provides two main protections for developers:
Blocking of IP addresses based on number of concurrent requests
Blocking of IP addresses based on number of requests over a period of time
For more information, link below is for your reference.
Configuring Dynamic IP Address Restrictions in Windows Azure Web Sites
If IP addresses of the requests are stable, you can also block these addresses or a range of IP addresses using ipSecurity configuration. For more information, link below is for your reference.
IP and Domain Restrictions for Windows Azure Web Sites
I am having an issue with a server where someone is sending thousands of requests from same IP in a minute. How do you limit amount of requests per minute per IP on Azure and if possible ban the IP temporary or permanently after that?
If you want to Permanently Ban a specific IP use an IPsec policy in your VM.
Find the details in the below link
http://www.serverintellect.com/support/windowsserversecurity/ipsec-blockip/
Otherwise If you Can to do it programatically. This is basically to prevent DDOS attacks. Please go through the below links
http://omaralzabir.com/prevent_denial_of_service__dos__attacks_in_your_web_application/
In Case You want to limit the no of requests from an IP
http://codingfreak.blogspot.com/2010/01/iptables-rate-limit-incoming.html
What do you suggest as the best way to protect your web servers IP address for outgoing requests? I'm already using Cloudflare for inbound requests but if my web server (nodejs) is making outbound connections for sending webhooks or something, I would prefer not to expose my origins IP. I have a firewall set up to prevent any connections inbound not coming from Cloudflare but I don't want my IP to expose where I'm hosted only to have my datacenter receive a DDoS.
There actually aren't any good articles I can find anywhere regarding protecting your IP with outbound connections.
Two thoughts:
1) Set up a second datacenter containing proxy servers and route outbound web server traffic through the proxy servers.
2) Set up a webhook queue, send webhooks to the queue and have servers in a 2nd datacenter work the queue.
Ideas?
I have worked at my company with a number of models over the years, including both ones that you listed. We started out using a queue that were available to web hook processors on remote data centers, but we transitioned over to a model that had less emphasis on queues, and instead simplified it; an originating server chooses one of the available notification/web hook senders, that in turns calls the web hook subscriber. The sender also takes care of buffering, resending, alerting and aging of messages.
For the purpose of protecting your IP address, it depends on a number of variables. In our case, we acquire additional IP address ranges for the senders, but you can achieve your goal by having the proxy hosted on AWS or similar.
Why would you want to do this? Your inbound requests are already dropped if they aren't from cloudflare.
I'm running a VM in Azure on which I have a service that makes a lot of outgoing http client calls. After a while (approx 10 minutes) when the service has made around 5000-10000 calls it suddenly starts to get Connection Refused as reponse to the requests.
When running the same service locally (tried in many environments and computers) it runs without any error. We are using the HttpClient class for the request.
The requests are done in 3 tasks running concurrently.
Is there some limits on the amount of outgoing connections in Azure that I should be aware of?
There is a maximum connection limit per azure subscription.
You should reuse the connections instead of opening new ones.
Read more about it here: http://www.freekpaans.nl/2015/08/starving-outgoing-connections-on-windows-azure-web-sites/
We have hit similar issues in the past, and looks like the VMs have an outbound connection limit of 1024 to an external IP. Internal Azure IPs, when they are in the same data center won't have this limitation since internal routing tables are able to handle those connections.
There is a lot of relevant information here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-outbound-connections#snatexhaust
Summarizing key points:
Try assigning a public IP to your VM if it doesn't have one. This is only viable if you are running a handful of VMs.
Try adding multiple IPs to your VNET/Load balancer if you are running behind one. Each external IP will multiply your connection limit.
Try optimizing your connection usage, i.e. keep connections alive for longer for efficient pipe-lining.
If you are using Linux VM, execute the below command to check the limit on open files/sockets
Ulimit - d cmd will give the value. The default is 1024
You can permanently change this value by appending the following in your limits.conf file
*soft nofile 65536
*hard nofile 65536
Beware of Azure DNS throttling.
DNS query traffic is throttled for each VM. Throttling shouldn't impact most applications. If request throttling is observed, ensure that client-side caching is enabled. For more information, see DNS client configuration.
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-name-resolution-for-vms-and-role-instances
I know its late but may be helpful for others.
Yes Azure has outbound connection limits as per subscriptions.
Solution:
Do not use multiple http client instances use single instance per application.
Reference link for connection limits is Here
Example:
How to use single instance example C# from Here
Here is the Azure page for service limits. It does not specify a call per time frame but does set max network connections for TCP as 500K and below that table there are settings for "Web Apps (Websites) Limits" that you may be reaching.
There is a limit of 500K TCP connections on a VM or web role (behind the scenes a web role sits on a VM as well). You can refer to the link below for Azure limits
Looks like your application is heavy on making outbound requests. In such a scenario, you might want to decouple this piece and use 'Azure functions' Azure Functions which gives you a serverless architecture capability.
Without knowing Azure at all, I wonder if the problem is that your VM has a limit on the number of TCP sockets - all of those (closed) TCP connections in FIN-WAIT state might have exhausted some limit set for Azure that isn't set in other circumstances. This is pure speculation.