# Incoming Stream failing and retrying over and over

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-failing-and-retrying-over-and-over/97594
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices
**Created:** [September 16, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-failing-and-retrying-over-and-over/97594 "2024-09-16T14:28:06Z")
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### Author: ![davihongla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@davihongla](https://community.wowza.com/u/davihongla)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-failing-and-retrying-over-and-over/97594/1 "2024-09-16T14:28:06Z")

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Hi, I’m having a problem where a failing stream is trying to reconnect over and over, making my wowza server crash when there is 2 or more failing incoming streams.

I realized that changing streamTimeout property from the Common configurations fixes the crash issue, once the reconnect is being triggered less often.

My question is, isnt there any config that just stops the auto reconnect? I’m using apple hls for the streaming