RE: [webmin-l] Webmin Servers, Broadcast/scan

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 16/Feb/2006 10:59 Neal Morgan wrote ..
> Jamie:
> 
> I was testing the UDP broadcast on two servers on the same network
> segment - there are neither switches nor firewalls between.  Also, when
> I put the UDP port back to 10000 on both they find each other without
> problem.

Have you tried using tcpdump to check the traffic between the servers?
Perhaps it is being sent to the wrong port?

> On the multihomed/duplicates issue, Webmin finds the server twice, with
> the same name.  When you edit the entries they are entirely the same.
> It appears to be finding the webmin name versus the host name; not an
> FQDN - so it doesn't look like there's a reverse lookup involved.  
> 
> Again, not a big issue, just thought you'd want to know in case you find
> yourself looking for something to do!  (I doubt that happens often).

Do all the IPs of this multihome server reverse-resolve to the same hostname?
That is the only way Webmin can get the hostnames ..

 - Jamie