[Icecast] Icecast SSL endpoint timeout issue

Jordan Erickson jordan at coolmic.net
Sat Mar 28 23:29:31 UTC 2020


Hi Jay,

Check out the very well written docs:
http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/


Cheers,
Jordan


On 3/28/20 12:36 PM, Jay George wrote:
> does anyone know how i can setup my own icecast server? 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 9:57 AM James Turner <james at switchbladeuk.com
> <mailto:james at switchbladeuk.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi team,
> 
>     Please accent my apologies if this is NOT the place/distro list to be
>     raising this. I had major dramas with the standard forum -
>     registration and
>     decided this may be a better route.
> 
>     My current instance icecast server has been built with  --with-curl
>     --with-openssl  options as outlined within this post:
>     https://weekly-geekly.github.io/articles/350236/index.html and the build
>     version is 2.4.99.2
> 
>     I'm using a valid certificate from letsencrypt on a Ubuntu 18 server
>     hosted
>     by AWS. Icecast recognizes this without issue.
> 
>     I'm having issues disconnecting  my source client  from Icecast when the
>     connections is via SSL. Non SSL source clients work as intended,
>     connecting
>     and disconnecting without issues and Icecast shuts down the mount points
>     after client drop-outs as intended. See the logs outlined below for
>     details.
>     Using an SSL connection and once the client connection drops (for
>     whatever
>     reason) Icecast does not recognize this and keeps the mount point active
>     forever - even when there's no data being sent by the client.  On a
>     reconnect try  the client gets a 'mount point already in use'
>     message. To
>     get over this state I either have to restart the Icecast service OR
>     manually
>     kill the source from the admin interface. Once done. I can reconnect
>     again.repeating the process
> 
>     Frustratingly, this (SSL) works (source>icecast>listener) - just about -
>     but I'd dearly like to understand the issue with the ssl connection and
>     mountpoint not being released. I would expect a source timeout to
>     occur, as
>     defined in the Icecast config file thus releasing the mount point.
>     However,
>     not to be.
> 
>     Connecting to unencrypted Icecast port (8000)
> 
>     Access.log
>     xx.xx.xx.xxx- - [09/Feb/2020:17:56:50 +0000] "SOURCE /acdc.ogg
>     HTTP/1.0" 401
>     777 "-" "libshout/2.4.1" 0
>     Error.log
>     [2020-02-09  17:56:50] EROR connection/_handle_authed_client Client
>     (role=anonymous, username=(null)) not allowed to use this request
>     method on
>     /acdc.ogg
>     [2020-02-09  17:56:50] EROR util/util_http_select_best Input string
>     does not
>     parse as KVA. Selecting first option.
>     [2020-02-09  17:56:50] WARN reportxml/reportxml_database_build_report No
>     matching definition for "25387198-0643-4577-9139-7c4f24f59d4a"
>     [2020-02-09  17:56:50] INFO connection/_handle_source_request Source
>     logging
>     in at mountpoint "/acdc.ogg" using "SOURCE" from xx.xx.xx.xxx as role
>     legacy-global-source
>     [2020-02-09  17:56:50] INFO source/source_main listener count on
>     /acdc.ogg
>     now 0
>     [2020-02-09  17:56:50] INFO format-opus/initial_opus_page seen
>     initial opus
>     header
> 
>     Source client disconnects.
>     Access.log
>     xx.xx.xx.xxx- source [09/Feb/2020:17:56:57 +0000] "SOURCE /acdc.ogg
>     HTTP/1.0" 200 324 "-" "libshout/2.4.1" 7
> 
>     Error.log
>     [2020-02-09  17:53:12] INFO source/get_next_buffer End of Stream
>     /acdc.ogg
>     [2020-02-09  17:53:12] INFO source/source_shutdown Source from
>     xx.xx.xx.xxx
>     at "/acdc.ogg" exiting
> 
> 
>     Connection by source client Using SSL (port 8444):
>     Connect:
>     Access.log
>     xx.xx.xx.xxx- source [09/Feb/2020:18:00:25 +0000] "GET /admin/metadata
>     HTTP/1.1" 200 481 "-" "Mozilla/5.0" 0
>     Error.log
> 
>     [2020-02-09  18:00:24] INFO connection/_handle_source_request Source
>     logging
>     in at mountpoint "/acdc.ogg" using "SOURCE" from xx.xx.xx.xxx as role
>     legacy-global-source
>     [2020-02-09  18:00:24] WARN format/format_get_type Unsupported or legacy
>     stream type: "audio/mpeg". Falling back to generic minimal handler
>     for best
>     effort.
>     [2020-02-09  18:00:25] INFO source/source_main listener count on
>     /acdc.ogg
>     now 0
>     [2020-02-09  18:00:25] INFO admin/admin_handle_request Received admin
>     command metadata on mount '/acdc.ogg'
>     [2020-02-09  18:00:25] INFO util/util_conv_string converting
>     metadata from
>     utf-8 to ISO8859-1
>     [2020-02-09  18:00:25] INFO admin/command_metadata Metadata on
>     mountpoint
>     /acdc.ogg changed to " - "
> 
>     Source disconnects here.
>     .       No log entries - no source timeouts.
>     .       Mountpoint (here acdc.ogg) still active and visible in the admin
>     interface
>     .       Source client cannot reconnect - see message below:
> 
> 
>     Action: Source client tries to reconnect (port 8000 or 8444)
> 
>     Access.log
>     xx.xx.xx.xxx- - [09/Feb/2020:18:03:53 +0000] "SOURCE /acdc.ogg
>     HTTP/1.0" 401
>     777 "-" "libshout/2.4.1" 1
>     xx.xx.xx.xxx- source [09/Feb/2020:18:03:53 +0000] "SOURCE /acdc.ogg
>     HTTP/1.0" 409 706 "-" "libshout/2.4.1" 0
> 
>     Error.log
> 
>     [2020-02-09  18:03:52] EROR connection/_handle_authed_client Client
>     (role=anonymous, username=(null)) not allowed to use this request
>     method on
>     /acdc.ogg
>     [2020-02-09  18:03:52] EROR util/util_http_select_best Input string
>     does not
>     parse as KVA. Selecting first option.
>     [2020-02-09  18:03:52] WARN reportxml/reportxml_database_build_report No
>     matching definition for "25387198-0643-4577-9139-7c4f24f59d4a"
>     [2020-02-09  18:03:53] INFO connection/_handle_source_request Source
>     logging
>     in at mountpoint "/acdc.ogg" using "SOURCE" from xx.xx.xx.xxx as role
>     legacy-global-source
>     [2020-02-09  18:03:53] EROR util/util_http_select_best Input string
>     does not
>     parse as KVA. Selecting first option.
>     [2020-02-09  18:03:53] WARN reportxml/reportxml_database_build_report No
>     matching definition for "c5724467-5f85-48c7-b45a-915c3150c292"
>     [2020-02-09  18:03:53] WARN connection/source_startup Mountpoint
>     /acdc.ogg
>     in use
> 
> 
>     Any pointers very welcome.
> 
>     Here is the config.xml file for the server used:
> 
>     <icecast>
>         <!-- location and admin are two arbitrary strings that are e.g.
>     visible
>              on the server info page of the icecast web interface
>              (server_version.xsl). -->
>         <location>earth</location>
>         <admin>icemaster at localhost</admin>
> 
>         <!-- IMPORTANT!
>              Especially for inexperienced users:
>              Start out by ONLY changing all passwords and restarting
>     Icecast.
>              For detailed setup instructions please refer to the
>     documentation.
>              It's also available here: http://icecast.org/docs/
>        -->
> 
>         <limits>
>             <clients>100</clients>
>             <sources>2</sources>
>             <queue-size>524288</queue-size>
>             <client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
>             <header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
>             <source-timeout>10</source-timeout>
>             <!-- If enabled, this will provide a burst of data when a
>     client
>                  first connects, thereby significantly reducing the startup
>                  time for listeners that do substantial buffering. However,
>                  it also significantly increases latency between the source
>                  client and listening client.  For low-latency setups, you
>                  might want to disable this. -->
> 
>             <!-- same as burst-on-connect, but this allows for being more
>                  specific on how much to burst. Most people won't need to
>                  change from the default 64k. Applies to all
>     mountpoints  -->
>             <burst-size>65535</burst-size>
>         </limits>
> 
>         <authentication>
>             <!-- Sources log in with username 'source' -->
>             <source-password>hackme57</source-password>
>             <!-- Relays log in with username 'relay' -->
>             <relay-password>hackme58</relay-password>
> 
>             <!-- Admin logs in with the username given below -->
>             <admin-user>admin</admin-user>
>             <admin-password>ITJShKNE0pRg</admin-password>
>         </authentication>
> 
>         <!-- set the mountpoint for a shoutcast source to use, the
>     default if
>     not
>              specified is     /stream but you can change it here if an
>     alternative is
>              wanted or an extension is required
>         <shoutcast-mount>/live.nsv</shoutcast-mount>
>         -->
> 
>         <!-- Uncomment this if you want directory listings -->
>         <!--
>         <directory>
>             <yp-url-timeout>15</yp-url-timeout>
>             <yp-url>http://dir.xiph.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi</yp-url>
>         </directory>
>         -->
> 
>         <!-- This is the hostname other people will use to connect to your
>     server.
>              It affects mainly the urls generated by Icecast for
>     playlists and
>     yp
>              listings. You MUST configure it properly for YP listings to
>     work!
>         -->
>         <hostname>localhost</hostname>
> 
>         <!-- You may have multiple <listener> elements -->
>         <listen-socket>
>                <port>8000</port>
>                <ssl>0</ssl>
>             <!-- <bind-address>127.0.0.1</bind-address> -->
>             <!-- <shoutcast-mount>/stream</shoutcast-mount> -->
>         </listen-socket>
>         <!--
>         <listen-socket>
>             <port>8080</port>
>         </listen-socket>
>         -->
> 
>         <listen-socket>
>                <port>8444</port>
>             <ssl>1</ssl>
>         </listen-socket>
> 
> 
>         <!-- Global header settings
>              Headers defined here will be returned for every HTTP request to
>     Icecast.
> 
>              The ACAO header makes Icecast public content/API by default
>              This will make streams easier embeddable (some HTML5
>     functionality
>     needs it).
>              Also it allows direct access to e.g. /status-json.xsl from
>     other
>     sites.
>              If you don't want this, comment out the following line or
>     read up
>     on CORS.
>         -->
>         <http-headers>
>             <header name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
>         </http-headers>
> 
> 
>         <!-- Relaying:
>              You don't need this if you only have one server.
>              Please refer to the config for a detailed explanation.
>         -->
>         <!--<master-server>127.0.0.1</master-server>-->
>         <!--<master-server-port>8001</master-server-port>-->
>         <!--<master-update-interval>120</master-update-interval>-->
>         <!--<master-password>hackme</master-password>-->
> 
>         <!-- setting this makes all relays on-demand unless overridden,
>     this is
>              useful for master relays which do not have <relay> definitions
>     here.
>              The default is 0 -->
>         <!--<relays-on-demand>1</relays-on-demand>-->
> 
>         <!--
>         <relay>
>             <server>127.0.0.1</server>
>             <port>8080</port>
>             <mount>/example.ogg</mount>
>             <local-mount>/different.ogg</local-mount>
>             <on-demand>0</on-demand>
> 
>             <relay-shoutcast-metadata>0</relay-shoutcast-metadata>
>         </relay>
>         -->
> 
> 
>         <!-- Mountpoints
>              Only define <mount> sections if you want to use advanced
>     options,
>              like alternative usernames or passwords
>         -->
> 
>         <!-- Default settings for all mounts that don't have a specific
>     <mount
>     type="normal">.
>         -->
>         <!--
>         <mount type="default">
>             <public>0</public>
>             <intro>/server-wide-intro.ogg</intro>
>             <max-listener-duration>3600</max-listener-duration>
>             <authentication type="url">
>                     <option name="mount_add"
>     value="http://auth.example.org/stream_start.php"/>
>             </authentication>
>             <http-headers>
>                     <header name="foo" value="bar" />
>             </http-headers>
>         </mount>
>         -->
> 
>         <!-- Normal mounts -->
> 
>         <mount type="normal">
>             <mount-name>/acdc.ogg</mount-name>
> 
>             <!--username>othersource</username>
>             <password>hackme_1666</password-->
> 
>             <max-listeners>1</max-listeners>
>             <!--dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file-->
>             <burst-size>65536</burst-size>
>             <!--fallback-mount>/example2.ogg</fallback-mount>
>             <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>             <fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
>             <intro>/example_intro.ogg</intro-->
>             <hidden>0</hidden>
>             <public>0</public>
>             <authentication type="htpasswd">
>                  <option name="filename"
>     value="/var/log/icecast2/password"/>
>                     <option name="allow_duplicate_users" value="0"/>
>             </authentication>
>             <http-headers>
>                     <header name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin"
>     value="http://webplayer.example.org" />
>             </http-headers>
>             <!--on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-start</on-connect>
>             <on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-stop</on-disconnect-->
>         </mount>
> 
> 
>         <fileserve>1</fileserve>
> 
>         <paths>
>             <!-- basedir is only used if chroot is enabled -->
>             <basedir>./</basedir>
> 
>             <!-- Note that if <chroot> is turned on below, these paths
>     must both
>                  be relative to the new root, not the original root -->
>             <logdir>/var/log/icecast2</logdir>
>            <webroot>/usr/local/share/icecast/web</webroot>
>            <adminroot>/usr/local/share/icecast/admin</adminroot>
>             <!-- <pidfile>/usr/share/icecast/icecast.pid</pidfile> -->
> 
>             <!-- Aliases: treat requests for 'source' path as being for
>     'dest'
>     path
>                  May be made specific to a port or bound address using the
>     "port"
>                  and "bind-address" attributes.
>               -->
>             <!--
>             <alias source="/foo" destination="/bar"/>
>             -->
>             <!-- Aliases: can also be used for simple redirections as well,
>                  this example will redirect all requests for
>     http://server:port/
>     to
>                  the status page
>             -->
>             <alias source="/" destination="/status.xsl"/>
>             <!-- The certificate file needs to contain both public and
>     private
>     part.
>                  Both should be PEM encoded.
>         -->
>             <ssl-certificate>/var/log/icecast2/icecast.pem</ssl-certificate>
>         </paths>
> 
>         <logging>
>             <accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
>             <errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
>             <!-- <playlistlog>playlist.log</playlistlog> -->
>             <loglevel>3</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
>             <logsize>10000</logsize> <!-- Max size of a logfile -->
>             <!-- If logarchive is enabled (1), then when logsize is reached
>                  the logfile will be moved to
>     [error|access|playlist].log.DATESTAMP,
>                  otherwise it will be moved to
>     [error|access|playlist].log.old.
>                  Default is non-archive mode (i.e. overwrite)
>             -->
>             <!-- <logarchive>1</logarchive> -->
>         </logging>
> 
>         <security>
>             <chroot>0</chroot>
> 
>             <changeowner>
>                 <user>icecast</user>
>                 <group>icecast</group>
>             </changeowner>
> 
>         </security>
>     </icecast><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> 
> 
> 
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