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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;line-break:after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The KH edition of Icecast has had those features for several years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><mount><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <mount-name>/*</mount-name> <!-- all mounts--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <max-listener-duration>43200</max-listener-duration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'></mount><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><paths><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <deny-ip>./deny.txt</deny-ip><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'></paths><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Icecast [mailto:icecast-bounces@xiph.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Gleason<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 4 February 2023 3:52 am<br><b>To:</b> Icecast streaming server user discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Icecast] "Ghost" connections causing connection limit to be reached<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Feb 3, 2023, at 04:50, Tony Harding <<a href="mailto:uktony@radiocompany.net">uktony@radiocompany.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Not that I am advocating for Shoutcast, but it does have two features that would be useful, A ban list, and a maximum duration setting. No one listens for more than 24 hours.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Human beings certainly don’t, but the use cases for Icecast are much wider than merely streaming to individual listeners. E.g. broadcast studio-to-transmitter links, where multiple-month long session durations are absolutely typical.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>|---------------------------------------------------------------------|<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| | Paravel Systems |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>|---------------------------------------------------------------------|<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of very, very long cat. You |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| is that there is no cat." |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>| -- Albert Einstein, upon being asked to describe radio |<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"'>|---------------------------------------------------------------------|<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>