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Port range 10000:10010

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#1 Tue, 08/25/2009 - 09:38

mbos

Port range 10000:10010

I noticed that when setting up the firewall through virtualmin, and you choose "setup for virtual hosting" option, a range of 10000:10010 rule gets created for access to webmin/virtualmin. Why is this a range? In the webmin config port settings I don't see options to set a range and only a single port.

#2 Tue, 08/25/2009 - 09:42

andreychek

While port 10000 is what's used to access Webmin/Virtualmin via a browser, I believe the ports up to 10010 are used for Webmin RPC calls.

An example of when that would come into play is when setting up a DNS slave, where Webmin would transfer zone setup information from one host to the other.

-Eric

#3 Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:07

mbos

Thanks Eric... I understand. Just dug around based on your comment and found the below for anybody else with a similar question about this port range and RPC:

http://www.virtualmin.com/node/9138

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0131408828/ch48

http://doxfer.com/Webmin/XML-RPCCalls

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