# Restrict to hostnames

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/restrict-to-hostnames/97446>\
**Category:** Wowza Video (Formerly Streaming Cloud)\
**Created:** [August 2, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restrict-to-hostnames/97446 "2024-08-02T04:18:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sales](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@sales](https://community.wowza.com/u/sales)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restrict-to-hostnames/97446/1 "2024-08-02T04:18:30Z")

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I added nettv.bz and \*.nettv.bz and I’m still able to take the link and paste it on the web browser bar and watch. If I’m restricting it to nettv.bz then why is it streaming everywhere else?

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**Author:** ![Bernd\_Backhaus1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/bernd_backhaus1/32/1328_2.png) [@Bernd\_Backhaus1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bernd_Backhaus1)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restrict-to-hostnames/97446/2 "2024-08-16T16:29:41Z")

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This was answered in a support ticket already, but for visibility to the community:

The [player hostname restrictions](https://www.wowza.com/docs/player-configuration-details-page-in-wowza-video) only apply to the **player** configuration and protect it from being used on other hosts (which would impact view statistics for example). To protect a Wowza Video **stream** , you can use several [stream security mechanisms](https://developer.wowza.com/docs/wowza-video/guides/stream-security/set-referer-policy-for-wowza-cdn-on-fastly-stream-targets/).

Regards,  
Bernd Backhaus  
Wowza Support  
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