[Icecast] Multiple mountpoints and ports

[kit]

Hi. Just a (sort of) final question(s).

I have 3 mountpoints running ok in my test virtual machine Icecast 
server via port 8000.

     http://10.1.1.41:8000/stream8000

     http://10.1.1.41:8000/stream8001

     http://10.1.1.41:8000/stream8002

My question is, what is the point of having potential additional 
<listen_socket> entries in the icecast.xml? Will port 8000 choke at some 
point if there are too many mountpoints thus requiring additional sockets?

Thanks,

Chris.



On 17/6/21 8:52 am, kit wrote:
> 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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