Re: [webmin-l] [bug report] webmin gui - binding webmin to non-public lo ip fails

[ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ <vt...@gm...>]

>> Having the lo iface assigned a non-public ip (172.23.120.98)  and trying
>> to bind Webmin (/webmin/edit_bind.cgi?xnavigation=1) to that ip produces
>> -> Failed to change address : The IP address 172.23.120.98 is not active
>> on this system, and so cannot be used
>>
>> setting 'bind=172.23.122.98' in "/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf" and a
>> restart of Webmin gets it working though.
> So you're setting the IP of the "lo" (loopback) interface to something
> other than 127.0.0.1 ? I don't think that's going to work ..

There is no issue for the lo iface to be assigned various other ip
addresses on top of 127.0.0.1 and neither for services/sockets to bind
to any of those additional ips and be available to other system
components.  At the moment I am running ssh, netdata, exim, dnsmasq and
webmin each on a separate lo iface ip.
Like mentioned earlier Webmin is currently bind and running on the lo
iface with ip 172.23.122.98, which though was not possible to set via
the Webmin gui but via 'bind=172.23.122.98' in "/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf".