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The Azure App Service connects through point-to-site VPN to the Azure Virtual Network Gateway (vnet). This has a site-to-site VPN connection to your local network gateway, to which your on-premises resources are connected, (such as web and database servers).



## Questions and answers

  • **Is the VPN connection one-way from DXP to on-premises resources?** Yes. The limitation is due to Azure App Services IP assignments. Accessing an Azure App Service on the internal IP that gets assigned to the app service when connected to a VPN is not possible.

  • **Is my VPN Gateway a compatible device for route-based VPN?** See [About VPN devices and IPsec/IKE parameters for Site-to-Site VPN Gateway connections](🔗).

  • **Can I use my own DNS server that is an on-premises single VPN-established connection?** Yes. Once the VPN connection is successfully configured on both sides, Optimizely can help you configure your app services running in DXP to use DNS servers hosted in your on-premises solution. You should test this on Integration and/or Preproduction before  applying it in Production. This requires a restart of your app service.

  • **Can I set up multiple VPN connections within the same DXP package?** Yes, at an additional cost. However, each environment (Integration, Preproduction, and Production) can be connected to the same VPN connection (virtual network gateway).

## Related topics

  • [VPN Gateway documentation](🔗)

  • [About VPN Gateway configuration settings](🔗)

  • [About VPN devices and IPsec/IKE parameters for Site-to-Site VPN Gateway connections](🔗).

  • [About cryptographic requirements and Azure VPN gateways](🔗)