Icecast Streaming Media Server

Anonymous · Guest

I have set up my online radio station..and started broadcasting!!
But, it's only me that can listen to it with the url ":http://localhost:8000/rap"!
Any one else, cannot(even though I have an server status window)..and I don't know why..!

I need help.. Embarassed

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

You can't expect the name localhost to work for people across the internet, you need a proper address. You can use an IP if not a name.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

I have already changed it..But not even now.. Confused

Have a look : http://hiphop.madpage.com:8000/rap
and my IP is 64.72.112.133!! Rolling Eyes

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

trying the status page here gets me a 'cannot connect' type message which would indicate that you have a firewall or routing issue preventing access to icecast.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

well, i have limited the action of my firewall..
But, i don't know what to do with my router..! Confused

Anonymous · Guest

i am stuck my radio station wont work my freinds cant hear anything

http://www.192.168.1.66:8000/live.ogg

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

I'm not surprised with such a badly formed url

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

Here's a ten second primer, reiterating what Karl already said ...

1) Addresses like http://localhost, http://192.X.X.X, (or 10.X.X. or 172.X.X. for that matter) are not 'reachable' via the internet. If you don't know why, go read this: http://www.pku.edu.cn/academic/research/computer-center/tc/html/TC0305.html
.. or just google "non routable IP addresses".

After reading that, contemplate this diagram:

(the Internet) <---> your router <---> your 192.X internal addresses at home

The general trick is to get your router, which has a world addressable IP address, to pass everything on port 8000 to whatever box on your 192.X network that is running Icecast.

2) As a corollary to #1, if you don't know how to configure your router/firewall/blender to let (your public ip address):8000 -> (whatever your internal ip address is):8000 ... we also can't help you. There's nine billion router configs out there. But that's basically what you wanna do. Go look up "port forwarding" and "NAT" in your manual and hope for the best.

3) It always helps to have somebody 'outside' your home network testing to see if they can hear the stream.

Hope this helps.