[Icecast] Preventing connections from unknown user agents

[Yahav Shasha]

I think 'listener_add' (url listener auth) is your best option besides
modifying icecast itself:
https://icecast.org/docs/icecast-latest/auth.html


בתאריך שבת, 23 באוק׳ 2021, 09:20, מאת ‏<db76 at riseup.net>:

> Hi,
>
>
> I’m hoping for some advice on keeping away unwanted connections to the
> server.
>
>
> I have streams on two mount points that are receiving connections from a
> number of users that have an ‘unknown’ user agent. Sometimes I get these
> types of connections on both mount points simultaneously from the same IP
> which leads me to believe that they’re not legitimate listeners - perhaps a
> bot, ripper, or metadata leech.
>
>
> I already have a script that kicks any user that connects to both mount
> points simultaneously from the same IP address. However, I’d like to know I
> if it might help if I added the following lines in a robots.txt file?
>
>
> User-Agent: *
>
> Allow: /
>
>
> User-agent: unknown
>
> Disallow: /
>
>
> I don’t currently have a robots.txt set up. If this won’t help, can anyone
> suggest a better way to prevent such connections?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Damian
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