Icecast - Feb 2023 - "Ghost" connections causing connection limit to be reached

On Feb 3, 2023, at 04:50, Tony Harding <uktony at radiocompany.net> wrote:
> 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.
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.

Cheers!


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True but you can set to Zero 

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From: Icecast [mailto:icecast-bounces at xiph.org] On Behalf Of Fred Gleason
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:52 PM
To: Icecast streaming server user discussions
Subject: Re: [Icecast] "Ghost" connections causing connection limit to
be reached

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On Feb 3, 2023, at 04:50, Tony Harding <uktony at radiocompany.net> wrote:

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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.

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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.

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Cheers!

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| "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of very, very long cat. You ?  ?  ? |

| pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.  ? |

| Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: ?  ? |

| you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference |

| is that there is no cat."  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
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The KH edition of Icecast has had those features for several years.

 

<mount>

  <mount-name>/*</mount-name>  <!-- all mounts-->

  <max-listener-duration>43200</max-listener-duration

</mount>

<paths>

  <deny-ip>./deny.txt</deny-ip>

</paths>

 

From: Icecast [mailto:icecast-bounces at xiph.org] On Behalf Of Fred Gleason
Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2023 3:52 am
To: Icecast streaming server user discussions
Subject: Re: [Icecast] "Ghost" connections causing connection limit to
be reached

 

On Feb 3, 2023, at 04:50, Tony Harding <uktony at radiocompany.net> wrote:

 

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.

 

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.

 

Cheers!

 

 

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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. |             Chief Developer             |

|                           |             Paravel Systems             |

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|

| "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of very, very long cat. You      |

| pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.   |

| Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way:    |

| you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference |

| is that there is no cat."                                           |

|                                                                     |

|            -- Albert Einstein, upon being asked to describe radio   |

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