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

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

On 09/Jun/2018 12:09 ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ <vt...@gm...> wrote ..
> 
> >> 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".

I'm surprising that having non-local IPs on the "lo" interface works .. but
even so, Webmin should allow this.

If you go to Hardware -> Network Configuration -> Network Interfaces, does
that IP show up?