[DOCS] 3008.x - Master Cluster Configuration Requires Interface Setting

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Start with the Master Cluster Documentation and the referenced salt/cluster/consensus/service.py lines 79-83 to confirm how the interface setting affects peer communication. Update the master cluster documentation to state that interface must be set in the master configuration, and verify that the requirement and its purpose are clear.

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If the master configuration on a cluster peer does not have the interface IP set, the default of 0.0.0.0 will be used. This will cause raft communication to not function between peers and errors like this will show up in /var/log/salt/master:

2026-07-19 08:21:19,024 [salt.cluster.consensus.peer:327 ][WARNING ][2460] RaftDispatcher: no pusher for 0.0.0.0, dropping cluster/raft/pre-request-vote-reply reply

This comment confirms the configuration requirement:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/b4987fd01302af213f5da198ab3fba2d9481a31a/salt/cluster/consensus/service.py#L79-L83

Suggested Fix
Add documentation indicating that interface must be set in the master configuration for peer communication to work in a master cluster.

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Master Cluster Documentation

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