[Eug-lug] firewallls

[Alan]

On Wed, July 25, 2007 8:54 am, Jim K wrote:
> 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


Though I don't use skype, I know how super-nodes work.
If you don't want to be a super-node, you can block the ports.
However, you say this is "not good". I'm curious as to why this would be
"not good".

-ajb