Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody,

I have two questions about the great Icecast2 server:
Scenario: The first Icecast2 server handles an ogg vorbis stream with enabled listener authentication. A second Icecast2 server shall relay this stream including the user + password combinations for listener authentication from the first server automatically, so that a user can login and access both streams with the same username and password.
Is this possible just with Icecast2 capabilities? If not, could that be done by setting up both streams (original and relayed one) with the same mount point configuration (except the individual part with the relay password on the relay server of course) and simply synchronize the authentication file with the users and their passwords between the two servers? Also I found a section in the New features list of version 2.2.0 and a section in the actual official documentation dedicated to that topic, my first question is only partially answered.
Also it would be nice to have MySQL-based authentication. I read that "New authenticators will be added later" in the official documentation. So actually, are their any plans for a MySQL authenticator?

Best regards,
Georg(e)

[karlH]

You will need to define a username/password for the relay to use when it connects to the first icecast. That user/pass can be specified in the <relay> details.

The two authentications schemes possible (with 2.3.1) are htpasswd and url. htpasswd is a nice and simple search of a local file for a matching user/pass combination, both servers would need access to this but a regular update of the file could be organized. The url authenticator invokes a specified url on certain events, like listener_add, to verify the listener credentials. The first icecast and the relay can use the same authentication url if they wish.

karl.