Icecast - Aug 2005 - Problem? On-demand relay & max listeners redirect

I think this might be a problem:

Say I have a master stream called /aac with 20 max listeners

I also have a on-demand relay with (master-redirect) enabled.


Now the plan is, when the master stream is full it would redirect to the
slave stream (a 302), but the slave stream cannot connect to the master
as its currently full.

So somehow the icecast server has to allow the relay stream to connect
(either by reserving a set amount of connections for relays, or by
kicking off a current listener on that stream to allow the relay to...
relay)

Is this a current problem or have I configured something wrong?


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On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:54, Ricardo Meechan wrote:
> I think this might be a problem:
> 
> Say I have a master stream called /aac with 20 max listeners
> 
> I also have a on-demand relay with (master-redirect) enabled.
> 
> 
> Now the plan is, when the master stream is full it would redirect to the
> slave stream (a 302), but the slave stream cannot connect to the master
> as its currently full.
> 
> So somehow the icecast server has to allow the relay stream to connect
> (either by reserving a set amount of connections for relays, or by
> kicking off a current listener on that stream to allow the relay to...
> relay)
> 
> Is this a current problem or have I configured something wrong?
The 302 mechanism is really on the back burner for the moment, but the
mechanism does allow for by-passing the max-listeners check if the
master determines the connection to be a slave, which currently, is only
done if :-

. The slave <relay> has the <username>/<password> set to the
whatever
<relay-user>/relay-password> in the master is set to.

. <master-relay-auth> is set to 1 so that <master-username> and
<master-password> are automatically passed in the case of automatically
defined relays

This only applies to the -kh branch as it could do with updating.

karl.