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 > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > >
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