I've just completed a fresh install of DirectAdmin on CloudLinux 8 and when the installer was complete I discovered I wasn't able to access the admin console on port 2222. A little bit of investigation showed that DirectAdmin was listening for ipv6 calls, but not ipv4.
The action to correct the situation was that listed on the page discussing modifications for FreeBSD marked as being required by ONE case on a Debian install (https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1168). I thought I'd let everyone know that it also applies to CloudLinux 8 installs, since you're likely to see a few of these over the coming months.
For reference, to fix it I applied:
and for good measure:
OH - and it might be worth noting that I also noticed that mysqld was only listening on ipv6 ports 3306 and 33060 as well
The action to correct the situation was that listed on the page discussing modifications for FreeBSD marked as being required by ONE case on a Debian install (https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1168). I thought I'd let everyone know that it also applies to CloudLinux 8 installs, since you're likely to see a few of these over the coming months.
For reference, to fix it I applied:
# echo "net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0" > /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.confand for good measure:
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6onlyOH - and it might be worth noting that I also noticed that mysqld was only listening on ipv6 ports 3306 and 33060 as well
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