[Eug-lug] firewallls

[Jim K]

In skype's world for systems behind firewalls a super node acts as a
server the peer to peer networking scheme.(I'm don't claim to be a
networking  expert.)
  If you are interested in using skype I recommend reading the following
link first.
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/howto/2006-06-21/
Jim K
Alan wrote:
> On Tue, July 24, 2007 10:15 pm, Jim K wrote:
>   
>> I shut down skype and the problem went away. To block super node status
>> i would need to block ports 80/tcp and 443/tcp. This is not good.
>>     
>
> Why? If you aren't running a webserver (which you presumably aren't, if
> skype could bind to those ports) what difference does it make to you if
> 80/443 are closed?
>
>
> -ajb
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