[Icecast] ices2 not re-connecting on live stream

[Frédéric Brière]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:26:27PM -0600, Keith Whyte wrote:
> I have a two instance setup, and have been finding that after a network 
> error occurs, the instance does not reconnect.
> 
> The ESTABLISHED connection is the instance which didn't get blocked by 
> iptables.
> and those sockets seem to remain in CLOSE_WAIT until i kill the ices 
> process.

This sounds similar to what I encountered when I first set up ices2 --
see <http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/2004-July/007364.html>.

In short, if you're streaming over a WAN, the main ices2 branch is
woefully inadequate, and you ought to try Karl Heyes' branch at
<http://mediacast1.com/~karl/>, as he described in his reply to my
original email.  (Don't get ices 2.0.1, which is merely a point release
and doesn't incorporate Karl's changes.)

If you let ices2 run for a long time, you'll probably need this patch as
well:

--- ices2-2.0.0-kh59.orig/src/input.c
+++ ices2-2.0.0-kh59/src/input.c
@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@
                 if (next_mod->open_module (next_mod) == 0)
                 {
                     next_mod->start = start;
+		    next_mod->failures = 0;
                     ices_config->next_track = 0;
                     return next_mod;
                 }


I've been running ices2 like this 24/7 for months now, only restarting
it once a week for log rotation.  Never had a problem since.


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