[webmin-l] accessing webmin suddenly stopped

[Russell Q. <ru...@sp...>]

> Hello,

> 

> Webmin (SSL mode) has been running fine for a while, but I've just 

> tried to access it after a few days and just receive a *timeout 

> message* from my browser. It's running on CentOS4.4 on a remote 

> server, that I just have shell access too, via telnet.

> 

> I've tried:

> 

> . Rebooting the server - Webmin appears to restart perfectly . Process 

> list - miniserv is running . Miniserv.error - No error messages . Wget 

> - I used wget from the shell terminal to connect to the webmin port on 

> the localhost and it worked, successfully returning index.html

> * iptables - Nothing has changed since Webmin was last working, and 

> I've tried shutting it down just to make sure.

> 

> Note that I also have Usermin running and that is fine.

> 

> I really can't figure this one out.

> 

> Any ideas? Anything else I can check and try.

 

> > If wget works locally, I would suspect a firewall is blocking port 

> > 10000 between your server and the client PC. Try running the command :

> >

> > tcpdump port 10000

> >

> > as root on the Webmin server, and then connecting using your browser. 

> > If no packets get displayed by the tcpdump command, then something 

> > must be blocking them.

 

I ran tcpdump and it reported nothing. There are no entries in iptables and
the port was open before. Where else should I check to see if it's blocked?

 

Would the connection time out if the port was closed?

 

Russell.