Re: [webmin-l] Clicking BROADCAST FOR SERVERS - 4 unfamiliar items

[Roger B.A. K. <ro...@qu...>]

pr...@pr... wrote
> I read @
> http://www.swelltech.com/support/webminguide/ch03.html
>
> "Clicking Broadcast for servers will cause Webmin
> to send out a broadcast request to port 10000 over
> YOUR LOCAL NETWORK.
>
> Every Webmin server on YOUR NETWORK will reply and identify itself."
>
> [My CAPS for emphasis]
>
> But I don't run any "local network".
> It's just me, my computer, and my lil' ol' server.
>   


You said that your server is in a colocation center, didn't you?

Quoting:

> My server is a "Red Hat" something or other dedicated server
> that I hire from EV1servers.net on a monthly basis.

If it lives at EV1servers.net's data center, the LOCAL NETWORK is the 
subnet it's on in their data center.