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

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From: Prodos
Replying to: Galen Johnson & Roger B.A. Klorese

Good evening and Happy New Year!

I had written:
> > But I don't run any "local network".
> > It's just me, my computer, and my lil' ol' server.


Roger B.A. Klorese replied:
> 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.subnet it's on in their data center.


Oh! Now I see what you mean!

Thanks very much for clearing that up.  :-)




Galen Johnson wrote:
> Technically these ids are on your "local network"...if you look up their
> IP addresses you'll see that they all start with 207.44.186.xxx (except
> for districthost.com but I suspect that your hosting provider services
> that block as well.  You can actually lock down webmin to only accept
> requests from specific IPs and to not respond to broadcast
> requests...this is something you should definitely pursue.  I would
> never leave an open webmin up on the internet at large (I don't even
> allow the rest of my company visibility).  That's just asking for
> trouble.  Ideally, you would have your webmin interface on a nonroutable
> internal address.  I'm not sure but there may be some best
> practices...if there aren't there should be; most of which is just good
> common sense in assuming a hostile environment.
>


Thanks for that advice.

How can I set up my WEBMIN to not respond to
broadcast requests please?
Can this be done from within the WEBMIN control panel
or do I need to do it via EV1servers.net ?



Best Wishes,

PRODOS

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