[Icecast] admin console

[user]

2020-01-08 09:59, Marvin Scholz wrote:
> 
> On 6 Jan 2020, at 22:56, user wrote:
> 
> > 2020-01-06 17:50, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> >> Good evening,
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 10:24 +0000, user wrote:
> >>> Hello.
> >>> Is it possible to bind admin console on different port?
> >>>
> >>> icecast 2.4.4
> >>
> >> No, this is not possible with Icecast 2.4.x. Doing that would even break
> >> some kinds of clients.
> >>
> >> Please note that it would not add to security as too often falsely
> >> claimed. If you want to improve your security, use a strong password and
> >> TLS.
> >
> > My password is strong, even admin name strong too.
> > Why TLS? To avoid password interception?
> >
> > I'm consider to put icecast behind reverse proxy. It is not so easy as I
> > think before. Does anyone have experience with it?
> >
> 
> In general putting Icecast behind a reverse proxy is not the best idea as
> some webservers are not really made out of the box to easily deal with the
> kind of usage Icecast will usually produce (long running connections
> serving a continuous stream). Additionally Icecast is not really capable

Currently I have problem with long running connection - client disconnect
every ~4 minutes with message in proxy log: TCP_MISS_ABORTED/200. I have no
idea why this may happen.

Icecast stay behind Squid. Last one estalish connection to Icecast over
cache_peer directive.

> currently do deal with being reverse-proxied properly so some things will
> break when doing that.
> 
> So unless you want to shoot yourself in the foot and run into various
> issues I would not recommend to do it.
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