Azure Data Factory ip out of range of Public Azure ips list

Question

Hi

When connecting from azure data factory to an external sql db with a firewall, we've created a task that whitelists the public azure ip ranges found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56519

However, for about a week now, our azure data factory attempts to connect to the external sql db with an ip out of range from the ips listed. For example: If the listed range was 20.20.20.0/30, azure attempts to connect from 20.20.20.31. This results in a connection failure, because we're hitting the firewall.

I'm unsure how to proceed. Whitelisting all ips is not an option, sadly.

Answer 1

@bird Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum and thanks for reaching out here.

As per the Azure IP Range documentation, these IP ranges are updated weekly to the list. Which may be the reason you are noticing this behavior.

To overcome this issue, I would recommend going with Azure Private link for secured connection. For more information about secure connection, please refer to this documentation: Azure Private link for ADF - Secure communication between customer networks and Data Factory

Hope this info helps.

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