[Icecast] How do I group icecast servers

Dennis Heerema Dennis at Heerema.net
Tue Dec 28 09:33:44 UTC 2004


I'm getting as far as this now

http://www.oddsock.org/icecast2yp/index.php?sgenre=&search=doosfm

Both servers are clustered, got in the m3u on both servers, both listen
urls. But they are still listed as two seperate streams in the yp dir

Regards,

Dennis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Heerema" <Dennis at Heerema.net>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Icecast] How do I group icecast servers


> Hi oddsock and others,
>
> Everything is clear about that, but where and how do i specify the
> servername, cannot find it in the docs and a threath about it on the
archive
> (found via google) is not there anymore.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dennis
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <oddsock at oddsock.org>
> To: <icecast at xiph.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Icecast] How do I group icecast servers
>
>
> > > Hi There,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to group icecast servers, so they are found as one
> > > announcement on the YP directory lists and al servers will give all
> > > servers in there m3u.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > Dennis Heerema
> > >
> > There are two different ways to group servers together on the YP.
> >
> > The first is referred to as "server grouping".  Streams that have the
same
> > Server Name and are listed from the same IP are "grouped" together into
> > one logical directory listing.  An example of this can be seen here :
> > http://dir.xiph.org/index.php?sgenre=&stype=&search=Wicked
> >
> > In this grouping, there are many streams listed, but all are grouped
into
> > a single logical listing.  Note that each stream can have a separate
> > Server description (Server description is separate from Server name).
> >
> > The second type of grouping is what's called "clustering".  Clusters are
> > grouped together in a single actual listing and are meant mostly for
> > listing streams and their relays together in a single physical listing.
> > >From your question, it seems that this is the type you are interested
in.
> > An example of this can be seen here :
> > http://dir.xiph.org/index.php?sgenre=&stype=&search=Ropin
> >
> > In this case, there is only a single listing, but when a listener clicks
> > on the listen link, they are served an m3u containing all clustered
> > servers.
> >
> > In order to "cluster" servers together, you MUST use the cluster
password
> > feature of Icecast 2.2.  This is a mount specific setting and the docs
> > should help you out in figuring out where it goes.  All streams with the
> > same cluster password and server name will be clustered together into a
> > single listing.  Note that clusters can span across multiple listing IPs
> > (as most relays do).
> >
> > hopefully that clears it up a bit...
> >
> > oddsock
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