how do i allow only specific ip address to connect

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how do i allow only specific ip address to connect

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aminnagpure
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Posted - 2014-10-09 : 10:00:20

recently i saw many login attacks on my sql server, it eat uped resources like anything

for the time being i have disabled, remote connection for my sql server

but i have other servers who connect to my sql server, and i want only them to be able to connect sql server, rest all denied

how can i do that
in sql server 2008 web edition r2

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tkizer
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38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-10-09 : 11:23:22

You can handle this at the firewall level so that the connections never make it to the database server. Contact your network admin for this.

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
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