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Question by Jim Shultz · Jun 27, 2014 at 04:00 PM · server administration

Restricting viewers by IP using wildcards using Streaming Engine

I have been asked to restrict a VOD file to our organization only. We have a class B block of addresses.

I scoured the forums and articles and saw that the Streaming Engine allegedly has this built in, so I just upgraded from Server 3.1.1 to Streaming Engine 4.04 on a Windows Server based on an article that said that the Streaming Engine incorporated this function in its core.

However, when I try to use an IP restriction using wildcards (ie: XXX.YYY.*.* where XXX and YYY are part of our organizations IP address block) on a VOD application, I get a message that I am using an invalid IP addresss.

A comma separated list could have a huge number of IP addresess, so the wildcards are essential.

Is this an implemented feature? I see a comment that says it may be imlemented in the future, but that doesn't help me now.
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Answer by Richard Lanham · Jun 27, 2014 at 10:40 PM

There is a customer contributed version of limit playback by IP that should work with wildcards here

You would have to build this in the IDE. I will put it in the backlog to add to the version in the module collection.

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I believe it is solved. I did send in a support request and the recommendation was to manually edit the application.xml file to include the wildcard string, instead of using the GUI to add it.

By manually editing the applications .xml file using the wildcard string, the Engine Manager GUI for Outgoing Security sees the string as valid, and some preliminary testing indicates that the wildcard string is used as I hoped.

People outside our network, who have tested this, cannot playback the test file. If they VPN into the network, they can. I have tested from within the network and playback is fine. I have access to a guest network, with a different IP address block, and the restriction kicks in.
avatar image Jason Hilton ♦ Jim Shultz · Jul 02, 2014 at 02:07 PM 0
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Hi,

That's great news, thanks for the update.

Regards,

Jason
avatar image Joseph Chiu Jim Shultz · Apr 21, 2016 at 10:43 AM 0
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Hi vmsvid,

Can you share the code?

Thanks

I believe it is solved. I did send in a support request and the recommendation was to manually edit the application.xml file to include the wildcard string, instead of using the GUI to add it.

By manually editing the applications .xml file using the wildcard string, the Engine Manager GUI for Outgoing Security sees the string as valid, and some preliminary testing indicates that the wildcard string is used as I hoped.

People outside our network, who have tested this, cannot playback the test file. If they VPN into the network, they can. I have tested from within the network and playback is fine. I have access to a guest network, with a different IP address block, and the restriction kicks in.

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