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Re: . XMMS icecast streaming was :" Elementary Woody Firewall with DSL"



This one time, at band camp, Dan Hunt said:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:37:00 -0500 Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > This one time, at band camp, Dan Hunt said:
> > > Any suggestions on allowing streaming Audio through the Firewall
> > > to XMMS?
> 
> > There is something new in iptables that wasn't in ipchains, that
> > allows connections already established.  A line like: $IPTABLES -A
> > INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Will allow any
> > already established connection through, even if that port is
> > otherwise firewalled.  I have all ports set to drop (except ssh) on
> > my firewall, but this allows all the NAT'ed boxes behind it to do
> > whatever they need to do.  Steve
> I have a line almost exactly like that in the firewall, is the problem
> is not knowing how to to configure xmms to access the firewall OR how
> to open port 8080 on either box?
> 
> Preferences/Input Plugins/MPG123/Streaming.  Xmms MPG123 Configuration
> Streaming Tab.  Proxy: checked use proxy Plug in the Host:192.168.0.1
> and left the port set to 8080 Left the use authentication blank. 

Are you actually running a proxy (squid/etc) on your firewall, or does
it just do packet filtering (iptables)?  If you're not actually running
a proxy, don't try to use one.

> Using info from Google, I Set up the browser so it knows what to do,
> but when I hit play on a website Listen tab the pop up box says
> "couldn't conect to host 192.168.0.1"
> 
> That happens even when I save the url playlist to disk and load it.

HTH,
Steve
-- 
Rubber bands have snappy endings!

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