[Icecast] Multiple mountpoints and ports

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For example you can enable SSL support on a difrent port.


kit <therealkitman at iinet.net.au> schrieb am Mi., 23. Juni 2021, 08:23:

> 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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