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On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 10:15:25 PM UTC-5, JackA wrote:
On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 9:46:03 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 9:11:38 PM UTC-5, gareth magennis wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in messnix.com...

Gareth Magennis soundcom wrote:
Just curious, but I have an Internet Radio stream streaming pre-programmed
music via a French server.

There is a permanent listener from the USA, which turns out to be Amazon
Inc. 50.16.54.95

Why would they be doing this?

I think that is an amazon web services "cloud" machine, so it's not
actually someone at Amazon, but someone who is a customer of Amazon.

Maybe they're recording it all. Maybe they are scanning it for something
in particular. For all you know it could be the NSA.
--scott





I've had this stream running for over a couple of years now, and have just
recently moved to a new provider.

The previous provider was in the UK, and I had no permanently attached
listeners such as this.
The new provider actually asked whether I wanted to use the server in
France, or one in Canada, and I chose France as this was closer to home.
And now I have the Amazon leech permanently attached.


And yes, (the man rocks) as Admin for this streaming service, I get to see
the IP addresses of all those logged in and listening.
Which doesn't sit well with me, I must say.

But then this is how it is. You log on to something, and whoever controls
that is going to know your IP.
Use a Proxy Server if that bothers you.




Cheers,


Gareth.

Could we get a certain fan of mine to tune
in to your station, so we can get his IP
and put him out of business for good?

Can't you get the IP from the post header?

Jack
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Not in this particular case. Dynamic IP.