Re: IIS 6 / WSS support unique IP Addresses for each web site?

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From: Ben Strackany (infoNOSPAM_at_developmentnow.nospam.com)
Date: 12/07/04


Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:57:49 -0600

Since all your webs share the same IP & port, your firewall will let traffic
for all of them through.

One workaround is to assign a different IP and/or port to the web site you
want to expose, & allow that ip/port through the firewall instead of the
shared ip/port.

-- 
Ben Strackany
www.developmentnow.com
"keith brickey" <k31thb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure if this is a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) question or an
> IIS 6.0 question. We currently have a server hosting six unrelated WSS
> websites. All websites have a unique domain name, but share a common IP
> address and port. We need to open a firewall port to allow access to one
of
> the web sites from outside the local network. The problem we face is that
> some of the web sites contain sensitive information that must remain
> inaccessable outside the local network.
>
> Is there any reason why IIS 6.0 / WSS cannot be configured to support a
> unqiue IP address/Port for each web site?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
>


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