Icecast Streaming Media Server

[rec91402]

I am trying to use streamtranscoder on my icecast servers.

One I set this up painlessly and working fine...

On my main server, not so pain free..

For what ever reason the main server won't allow streamtranscoder to connect on localhost or 127.0.0.1, but via public IP is fine..

I don't have any listener or bind addresses in the config for the main server.

The server provider INSISTS that 127.0.0.1/localhost is NOT blocked via any firewall settings on port 8000. I beg to differ.... but...until I can prove its not icecasts config they will not resolve it..

I've tried adding a listener and bind to try to force it, but it still doesn't allow a connection 127.0.0.1/localhost

So the only way to get my stream transcoded is to use the public IP, which obviously counts against the bandwidth used per month, which at 24/7/365 is not what I want.

I did NOTHING to my test server setup, and it listens on 127.0.0.1/localhost just fine.

Hints at what I need to look at to make sure that icecast is listening to 127.0.0.1/localhost port 8000 as well?

I've tried all of what I felt was obvious in the config with no joy....

Comments, hints, suggestsions, bigger hammer, kick harder? ? ?

Thanks!

[karlH]

look at the netstat output for the local address of sockets in a listen state (eg netstat -tnl). If you are on a bind socket then you'll see the IP in the entry instead of 0.0.0.0.

Besides the listening aspect of icecast, there is also the routing and firewalls. Does ping and a simple connection to 127.0.0.1:8000 work (eg curl/wget)?

karl.

[rec91402]

[karlH]

tcp 0 0 174.xxx.xxx.xxx:8000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

so it looks like a bind is being given, it also looks like you have a shoutcast compatible port as well, which makes me wonder whether you have 2 listen-sockets defined or a shoutcast-mount in the listen-socket for port 8000. If you have neither then I would suspect that an icecast is being run using a different xml to what you are thinking of. Check the ps aux | grep icecast output to see the actual path of the xml and see if you are using anything like chroot jail as that could indicate a different location for the xml. You can always try change the port number to see if the netstat shows the difference.

karl.

[iunderwood]

Looking at the netstat output, there are no sockets for your Icecast except on the public iP. If this were open to everything, you'd see a 0.0.0.0:8000/8001 in the Local Address column for IPv4 only sockets.

If you're being billed entirely by traffic that goes out the network interface, then I don't think you'll be billed, because the traffic to and from the same host never leaves the machine. You'll need to find a way to verify that.
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