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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I Domian,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>sorry I cannot answer your question.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But I would like to point out, that I have also some IPs which try to connect to my Icecast streamer with an empty user agent. But also with known user agents, which try to connect for 7/24. I don’t allow them to connect. One is retrying it almost every minute.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anybody know what is behind that?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hans-Georg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Icecast [mailto:icecast-bounces@xiph.org] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>db76@riseup.net<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 23. Oktober 2021 08:15<br><b>An:</b> icecast@xiph.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> [Icecast] Preventing connections from unknown user agents<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=s1>Hi, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 21px;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>I’m hoping for some advice on keeping away unwanted connections to the server. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 21px;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>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. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 21px;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>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?</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 21px;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>User-Agent: *</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>Allow: /</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 21px;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>User-agent: unknown</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>Disallow: /</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 21px;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>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?</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;min-height: 21px;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>Thanks</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-stretch: normal;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto'><span class=s1>Damian</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br /> <table style="border-top: 1px solid #D3D4DE;">
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