[Icecast] Multiple mountpoints and ports

[kit]

Hi Philipp,

So I can use several password secured mountpoints all on the single port 
8000. Sounds easy.

Thanks,

Chris.


On 16/6/21 7:03 pm, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 09:27 +0800, kit wrote:
>> Hi Jordan,
>>
>> So does it matter if all authenticated mountpoints use the same port
>> eg 8000?
>>
> there is no need to build a second road when you got a second car. ;)
>
> Mountpoints are fully independent. If you need to ensure your friends
> do can not log into your mount point, then give them another password.
> That is what Jordan suggested. Using the default username of "source"
> is a good idea if you don't know the client, that is true.
> Authentication happens per-mount. So also no problem to have the same
> username for different mounts. (But using a username per user is surely
> nicer, e.g. when manually reading logs. :)
>
> With best regards,
>
>
>> On 16/6/21 8:45 am, Jordan Erickson wrote:
>>> Hey Chris,
>>>
>>> That's not really how Icecast mountpoints work. You'd be much
>>> better
>>> off doing source level authentication per-mountpoint. Using
>>> different
>>> ports doesn't help your situation unless you're doing some fancy
>>> firewalling but if you have a username/password pair entered
>>> per-mountpoint in the config you can separate any number of
>>> mountpoints securely. Just note that some source clients (not sure
>>> about Mixxx, I use Cool Mic) only allow a 'source' username for
>>> connecting to Icecast. I believe you can still specify a password
>>> per-mountpoint without username.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jordan Erickson
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/15/21 5:19 PM, kit wrote:
>>>> Hi Geoff,
>>>>
>>>> My use case is that I have put an icecast server in the cloud. I
>>>> want
>>>> to stream my stuff on one port and let my friend stream their
>>>> stuff
>>>> on a different port. I would worry that if they accidentally
>>>> entered
>>>> the same port as mine in the source client (eg Mixxx) - eg
>>>> http://serverip:8000/mystream8000 and
>>>> http://serverip:8000/friendsstream8001- it would screw up both
>>>> our
>>>> streams.
>>>>
>>>> Basically I'm looking at this like a safety mechanism,
>>>> particularly
>>>> if I want to add a 3rd stream for another friend.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Chris.
>>>>
>>>> On 14/6/21 6:00 pm, Geoff Shang wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2021, kit wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to assign specific ports to mountpoints in
>>>>>> such a
>>>>>> way that stream8001 can't use port 8000 but only work on port
>>>>>> 8001?
>>>>> I don't think so.
>>>>>
>>>>> YOu can set up mount aliases that are port-specific but I don't
>>>>> know
>>>>> of a way of preventing access to other mounts.
>>>>>
>>>>> So for example, you could put your streams on stream1 and
>>>>> stream2
>>>>> and set up an alias called stream8000 which specifies port
>>>>> 8000 to point to stream1, and an alias stream8001 which is
>>>>> specific
>>>>> to port 8001 which points to stream2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then you could publicise the aliases and hide the original
>>>>> mounts so
>>>>> in theory no-one should find them.  But I don't think that
>>>>> you'd be
>>>>> able to prevent access to stream1 or stream2 on either port if
>>>>> someone actually did find them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm curious to know what your use case is.
>>>>>
>
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