Who can explain me this?

[willoriker]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4
Webmin version	2.105
Usermin version	2.005
Virtualmin version	7.9.0
Theme version	21.09.5
Package updates	All installed packages are up to date

hi to everybody, i admin 4 servers, all based in virtual min, all of this created in the last 2 years, all of this w/o modification , only standart instalation, why i have this diferent IP in status page???

i search a lot of option looking for the right place for set external ip , but i dont know where is it
tx in advance

[stefan1959]

Would it be the same as the IP in here? I have 127.0.01 and that whats shown on dashboard.
As long as everything works I wouldn’t worry too much.

[willoriker]

yes i check it, i am not worry, because they work properly, but i like to find a good explanation

[Randomz]

127.0.0.1 is a special IP that refers to localhost or “this actual machine”.

Every server will have that same IP, but they are not visible to other machines which will have their own copy of that IP.

One of my test web sites was being hit by a lot of xmlrpc attacks from hundreds of different IPs recently, so I changed that servers IP to 127.0.0.1 in DNS, meaning that each machine sending attacks would now be sending them to themselves. I was surprised at how fast the attacks stopped and that they didn’t resume when I put the correct IP back an hour later.