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Logging into a freshly installed VPS (KVM) and after installing Virtualmin I noticed the IP address that appears next to the host name is not the dedicated IP address of the server but 127.0.0.1.
System Information > System | System hostname vps.example.com (127.0.0.1)
This is the first time I am seeing this and the closest thing I've found here is this past topic: https://www.virtualmin.com/node/25210
As per that discussion, I added the server IP address to /etc/hosts but that didn't make any difference.
Is this something that I should be worried about? I mean, is this a misconfiguration?
Howdy,
Hmm, what are the contents of your /etc/hosts file now?
I suspect you may have corrected it, and that Virtualmin just isn't reflecting that change yet. But verifying the contents of your /etc/hosts file should help.
-Eric
Thank you, Eric.
These are the contents of my hosts file now:
# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost vps.example.com localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost vps.example.com localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
93.184.216.119 vps.example.com