Agreed. If you have a product that claims to block skype, I'd give it a
test....

Matt

Vladimir Parkhaev wrote:
> Quoting Matt Jonkman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> What these vendors may be doing it trying to block access to centralized
>> login or directory servers by known IP ranges... I don't know if that'll
>> be completely effective.
>>
> 
> If I understand the protocol correctly, central servers are contacted only on 
> a first run
> (after install). I(D|P)S systems can have sigs with IP addresses of those 
> servers, but if user X installs Skype client on his corp. laptop at home... 
> it doesn't help much.
> 

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