Icecast Streaming Media Server

[peepo]

I had this working fine last week Ive changed nothing in the config file & now when I try to connect the fallback stream to icecast server I keep getting 'Invalid password, Authentication required (401)'

Does anyone have a clue as to why this might be happening now when I had it working fine last week?

[karlH]

no

[peepo]

does a fallback mount require a seperate password to be specified in the config file?

[peepo]

<icecast>
<limits>
<sources>3</sources>
</limits>

<hostname>215.160.143.209</hostname>
<mount>
<mount-name>/listen</mount-name>
<password>******</password>
<max-listeners>100</max-listeners>
<fallback-mount>/archive</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
<public>1</public>
<bitrate>128</bitrate>

<hidden>1</hidden>
<burst-size>65536</burst-size>
<mp3-metadata-interval>4096</mp3-metadata-interval>

<on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/source-start</on-connect>
<on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/source-end</on-disconnect>
</mount>
<authentication>
<source-password>******</source-password>
<admin-user>admin</admin-user>
<admin-password>******</admin-password>
</authentication>
<listen-socket>
<port>8000</port>
</listen-socket>
<fileserve>1</fileserve>
<paths>
<logdir>./logs</logdir>
<webroot>./web</webroot>
<adminroot>./admin</adminroot>
<alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
</paths>
<logging>
<accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
<errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
<loglevel>3</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
</logging>

</icecast>

Can anyone see in my code why icecast server would be rejecting connection from my fallback mount? /listen mount is connecting fine /archive mount is being rejected.

[karlH]

seeing that there's no <mount> for /archive, the auth would be "source" for username and whatever you have for <source-password>

karl.

[peepo]

I added <username>source</username> in the authentication section & its working, thanksyou thankyou!

[peepo]

Agggg, it has stopped working again. Same error 'Invalid password, authentication required'

I dont understand why this is happening.

I added this to config file

<icecast>
<limits>
<sources>3</sources>
</limits>

<hostname>215.160.143.209</hostname>

<mount>
<mount-name>/listen</mount-name>
<password>******</password>
<max-listeners>100</max-listeners>
<fallback-mount>/archive</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
<public>0</public>
<bitrate>128</bitrate>
<hidden>0</hidden>
<burst-size>65536</burst-size>
<mp3-metadata-interval>4096</mp3-metadata-interval>
<on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/source-start</on-connect>
<on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/source-end</on-disconnect>
</mount>

<authentication>
<username>source</username>
<source-password>******</source-password>
<admin-user>admin</admin-user>
<admin-password>******</admin-password>
</authentication>

<listen-socket>
<port>8000</port>
</listen-socket>

<fileserve>1</fileserve>
<paths>
<logdir>./logs</logdir>
<webroot>./web</webroot>
<adminroot>./admin</adminroot>
<alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
</paths>

<logging>
<accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
<errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
<loglevel>3</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
</logging>

</icecast>

[peepo]

Its working again, this is nuts.

[peepo]

now its stopped working again. The problem is only occuring with the fallback (/archive) mount. The /listen mount works fine all the time.

If I stop the fallback stream after Ive managed to get it going & then try to restart it, it starts giving me the 'Invalid password, Authentication required' error.

Ive noticed also that when this starts happening icecast server stops showing all stats, they all sit on 0. Yet when the fallback (/archive) mount is successfully connected Icecast server shows stats for both the /listen & /archive mounts as normal.

[peepo]

This is the error log. The archive fallback deffinately has the right password. Does anyone know what else could be causing this password error?

[2008-07-07 10:01:24] INFO connection/connection.c Source logging in at mountpoint "/archive"
[2008-07-07 10:01:24] INFO connection/connection.c Source (/archive) attempted to login with invalid or missing password
[2008-07-07 10:01:34] INFO connection/connection.c Source logging in at mountpoint "/archive"
[2008-07-07 10:01:34] INFO connection/connection.c Source (/archive) attempted to login with invalid or missing password

[karlH]

The tag you added is not an icecast tag so it would not of made a difference. I can only suggest that you make sure icecast is up to date but I don't see any other reason why that message would appear unless the source client really is sending the wrong user/pass on those occasions. Only the username is logged in access log.

karl.

[peepo]

Ahhh, I have entered the password lots of times, it is deffiantely right.
This is terrible, today was our big day for moving station to new server & now this

Is there any other setting for icecast that is similar to fallback? That I may use in a similar fashion, therefor bypassing the problem of server rejecting archive mount connection.

[karlH]

Why are you entering the password lots of times, you should just do it once and the reconnection is automatic?

We've had no other reports of random source client auth rejection, and we have no way of knowing what has changed on your system to cause apparent behaviour. You haven't said the version you are on, which source client you are using or whether you are adding the /archive mount tags or what the packet dumps are of the connection. maybe there is an issue with the password you have specified (although that would affect it all the time)

The xml looks ok, but unless you give more information then no further progress can be made. And no, all source clients required authentication

karl.

[peepo]

Im using the newest version of Icecast server on a windows 2003 server with server 2003 firewall enabled.
The source client is Simplecast.

The source client for /listen mount is on a different pc. The fallback mount (/archive) is an instance of simplecast running on the same server as Icecast, using localhost as the ip address to connect with icecast server.

Im thiking this may be a windows server 2003 firewall issue blocking the /archive attempt to connect to Icecast server. Although I dont understand how when they are both behind the firewall.

Maybe, although they are both behind the firewall, the source client sends an outbound request to Icecast server which is then blocked by the firewall?
I dont know, I just clutching at straws here.

[peepo]

Ive turned off the firewall & so far so good. Probably not the best thing to do but what could I do