The Guitar Channel stream is currently down. My internet connection is being flooded today by an IP address from Ottawa Canada. The traffic is coming from 192.234.223.100. I kicked this IP off the Guitar Channel stream around 1:30pm central time today when I saw it had been connected for close to 8 hours straight. I just can't afford to have people connected for that long when I only have 3 slots available. When I do this, I usually unban the IP in a day or so. Anyway, now I can't start the stream up without being flooded with requests from this IP. Granted, an initial request technically counts as download (inbound) traffic for me, whereas an IP that's actually connected to the stream is using my upload (outbound) bandwidth. Regardless, if I run the SHOUTcast server now, my overall internet connection slows down because this person finds it even if I change IP's (yes I tried that). They find it because no-ip.com redirects traffic to me regardless of my IP address (this allows people to find my stream at all times even though I don't have a static IP). The stream will be down indefinitely while I work on this and other maintenance.
Rich
Stream must be up, because I am enjoying it immensely.
Will try not to stay on too long.
Happy New Year.
Brian
The IP from Massachusetts
Posted by: Brian | January 01, 2006 at 01:33 PM