using webmin from a remote pc

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Whenever I try to use webmin from a particular remote laptop it takes ages to fully download each page even though I am just next door to the server. When I look at the tcpdump during the delay, I see many messages which say:
[date/time] arp who-has [some ip address] tell [my server ip address].
The some ip address section is sometimes my dns server's address and sometimes others I have never heard of. But it always does about 20 lookups each time a different part of a webmin page is downloaded.
Does anybody know why it is doing these lookups every time?

Thanks
Damian

[Henrie Assinck]

Maybe you could use a workaround by adding the server-address and hostname to your hosts file? BTW... is your remote machine a unix-like machine or windows?

Greetings Henrie

[Anonymous]

What do you mean with adding sever-address and hostname to my hostfile? :s How do I do that?

Ow and I'm running Redhat Linux 9

[Henrie Assinck]

It's quite simple. Look for the file:
/etc/hosts
and add the following line

111:222:333:444 server.somedomain.com serverhostname

When done this allows your remote machine to address the server directly instead of letting a DNS-server resolve it. No more lookups for this machine :-)