Geo looking

[toretto]

Hello to all,

I'm studying to make a geo look listeners in shoutcast to a determinate country but how I configure the file conf? I not know how work.

Thank you.

[Sawg]

SHOTUcast doesn't support such feature, so there is nothing in the conf file to configure.

[toretto]

How this services provide this feature? I need to geo look to a determine country my listeners.

Thank you.

[dotme]

Shoutcast doesn't have any pre-emptive capability to Geo-Lock. Best you can do is write a PHP script of some kind that periodically downloads the XML file, parses the IPs connected, looks them up, and then kicks the ones that are not in the location you want to stream to. It's a lot of work.

There are, however, some stream hosting companies that have done the legwork on this already. If spending a little on hosting isn't a problem, you might find solutions there and that would save a lot of coding etc.

[toretto]

So dotme you think about a script that "kick" the listeners out of the defined country? But it not appear the same into the log?

[dotme]

MaxMind has a free GeoLocation tool

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry

That's a good place to get a DB of IP blocks and countries they are associated with.

Then you could write a chron job/script that pulls the file from server/admin.cgi?mode=viewxml

Parse the XML, get each IP, look it up, see if it should be connected. If not, kick and/or ban it.

This can all be automated, but like I said, it's a fair amount of work depending on your skill set. If you're a small station then it's going to be easier to pay a host that already has something like this in place.

If you're offering a service yourself though, then it might be worth the work...

[kdh]

I thought I'd chime in..

I use some perl scripts that I wrote.. I use the website hostip.info to get most of my info, if I don't have that, I also use the perl plugin Net::Whois::IANA

Then we turn that information into Google Maps friendly API.

all runs via cron.

I have my code some where on the forum for all to share and use.

[toretto]

kdh can u insert the link here?

[kdh]

Here is the link... I've have updated my perl code so its a little out of date, but this version is still a pretty good example as to how I'm doing it. Please don't laugh at the code..

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....highlight=perl

[toretto]

But this script is to show where listeners are connected or to geo look only listeners from a determinated location/country?

[wolle-2009]

Hello this is live status script from radio tools
with demo http://www.radio-tools.com/stats/index.php

[toretto]

Guys, I not need a script to show from where listeners are listening, I need a script that block the listeners of determinated country for licensing problem.

[Nick@ss]

These scripts are not posted around these parts from what i have seen in my time here.

you would need to write it or have it written for you.

you would also need to make sure the geo database is always up to speed or you will find people are listening that are not supposed to be.

See dotmes post above for what you need to be looking for,

[toretto]

Hi Nick@ass,

I understand that I must develop from my side, but what I must do? I mean what procedure I must use to geo look listeners? I must make a cron job to kick users?

[Nick@ss]

I have seen it done a few ways.

1 is to use a port 80 stream and firewall the ips that are not allowed to listen and as far as i know this is how its done by some people and i think this is an element of cast control these days as well.

another way would be to use icecast and enable the authentcication which shoutcast does not offer by default but icecast does.

You can then have the geo ip database referenced for allowed connections by the ip.

if you allow the users to connect then kick them they will still show in the logs and you will not be solving the problem.

to be honest its a lot of work for someone doing it themselves as this kind of thing really isnt catered for.

you will have to pay to keep the database updated aswell so it is current.

[toretto]

But port 80 stream not show "localhost"? About license can be is a problem this?

[kdh]

Originally posted by toretto
Guys, I not need a script to show from where listeners are listening, I need a script that block the listeners of determinated country for licensing problem.

you'll have to write it all yourself. You can use some of the code in my script to help figure out where people are coming from, but then you'd need to add those ip addresses to the ban file and then refresh the sc_tran pid to make it take effect. It would most likely run every minute from cron. hope that helps.