Thanks for the advice. Cormac.

Other than these suggestions you can restrict accepting IP's from IIS: Property of Directory in IIS----> Directory Security----->Edit button in IP address and domain name restriction Mazy "This chancy chancy chancy world."

No, the web server is talking to database.

I'm digging around for the same thing, I need to have attributes on the WebServiceBinding object change at runtime.

Thanks!

Excellent - question answers. Thanks.

Gove the IP address of the SQLServer in your connection string and query it as usual.... or have I misunderstood your problem? Fred

Cool that sounds good. Probably wont be Server 2005, however. Unless Express 2005 allows for that...

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Ah, good. All making sense now. Cheers, Cormac