title: Connecting to a SQL Server on the Web
body: <p>My company had a machine running SQL Server hosted by a company specializing in such.  We have an .NET application that connects to it.</p>
  
  <p>Recently the decision was made to bring the machine in house.</p>
  
  <p>If we use the internal IP of the machine to connect, it works.  When we go to an outside network and use the machine's external IP, it fails.  The machine answers pings, and all of the ports in the following article have been opened.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287932" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287932</a></p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>