How to get listed in dir.xiph.org?

[John Hicks]

I've been trying to tweak my icecast.xml file to get listed in xip.xiph.org, but am not making any progress.
I'm running icecast 2.3.1 and darkice 0.19

Here are what I think are the relvant parts of icecast.xml:
    <directory>
        <yp-url-timeout>15</yp-url-timeout>
        <yp-url>http://dir.xiph.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi</yp-url>
    </directory>
and
    <mount>
        <mount-name>/stream.ogg</mount-name>
        <fallback-mount>/Silence.ogg</fallback-mount>
        <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
        <no-yp>0</no-yp>
        <public>1</public>
    </mount>

I don't see anything in my darkice.cfg file that is yp specific.

Am I doing something wrong?

How often is the directory refreshed? (How patient should I be?)

Thanks,

John





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[Geoff Shang-2]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, John Hicks wrote:

> I'm running icecast 2.3.1 and darkice 0.19
[snip]
> I don't see anything in my darkice.cfg file that is yp specific.

You need

public = yes

in the stanza of the config file which relates to your streaming
configuration (e.g. [icecast2-0])

I don't know what the default state is if this is not present, but I
wouldn't be surprised if it defaults to no.

Geoff.

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[Karl Heyes]

On 18/10/09 00:43, John Hicks wrote:

> I've been trying to tweak my icecast.xml file to get listed in
> xip.xiph.org, but am not making any progress.
> I'm running icecast 2.3.1 and darkice 0.19
>
> Here are what I think are the relvant parts of icecast.xml:
> <directory>
> <yp-url-timeout>15</yp-url-timeout>
> <yp-url>http://dir.xiph.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi</yp-url>
> </directory>
> and
> <mount>
> <mount-name>/stream.ogg</mount-name>
> <fallback-mount>/Silence.ogg</fallback-mount>
> <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
> <hidden>0</hidden>
> <no-yp>0</no-yp>
> <public>1</public>
> </mount>

> How often is the directory refreshed? (How patient should I be?)

The public setting here is an override mainly for on-demand relays but
you should find a setting in the source client (as Geoff suggested).
Besides that check the icecast error log, if YP support is disabled then
that will be reported also if there is an error in adding the entry then
the error will be logged (eg an invalid hostname).   While icecast may
only add the entry after about a minute, the directory should show the
entry fairly quickly after that.

karl.

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[John Hicks]

Karl Heyes wrote:

On 18/10/09 00:43, John Hicks wrote:

I've been trying to tweak my icecast.xml file to get listed in
xip.xiph.org, but am not making any progress.
I'm running icecast 2.3.1 and darkice 0.19

Here are what I think are the relvant parts of icecast.xml:
<directory>
<yp-url-timeout>15</yp-url-timeout>
<yp-url>http://dir.xiph.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi</yp-url>
</directory>
and
<mount>
<mount-name>/stream.ogg</mount-name>
<fallback-mount>/Silence.ogg</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<hidden>0</hidden>
<no-yp>0</no-yp>
<public>1</public>
</mount>

How often is the directory refreshed? (How patient should I be?)

The public setting here is an override mainly for on-demand relays but you should find a setting in the source client (as Geoff suggested). Besides that check the icecast error log, if YP support is disabled then that will be reported also if there is an error in adding the entry then the error will be logged (eg an invalid hostname).   While icecast may only add the entry after about a minute, the directory should show the entry fairly quickly after that.

karl.

Bingo! Following your suggestion, I checked my Icecast error log (duh) and found:
EROR yp/send_to_yp YP add on http://dir.xiph.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi failed: Add refused. Reason: Illegal listen_url. Incorrect <hostname>.

After trying all sorts of different combinations and permutations of my URL (with and without the port, with and without the tailing slash) in the <webhost> entry of my icecast.xml, I finally stumbled on using the domain name only (without the http://).
<webhost>mydomain.com</webhost>

That did the trick!

Thanks for the help, Karl (and Jiri and Jeff and Bryan)!

John

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