Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:41:30 +0100 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: "eculp@argosteve.com" <eculp@argosteve.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with skype on RELENG_6 KERNEL since the end of may. Message-ID: <4678154A.5080005@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <1182270419.1253.19.camel@localhost> References: <20070614092909.553h1gdf2g4gg4ks@correo.argosteve.com> <20070619234043.48169311@localhost> <1182270419.1253.19.camel@localhost>
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Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 23:40 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:29:09 -0500 >> "eculp@argosteve.com" <eculp@argosteve.com> wrote: >> >>> A RELENG_6 kernel from May 21 works fine with skype but boot a newer >>> kernel and skype seems to be blocking port 80. Apache logs show >>> nothing. I can find no logs errors anywhere but a telnet to port 80 >>> answers with what would seem to be binary chars. I close skype and >>> all is back to normal. I had originally thought that it had to do >>> with the new xorg installation but it seems to be something in the >>> kernel. The configurations were the same, basically GENERIC with all >>> the pf stuff. >> Hi, >> >> Skype has an option to listen on tcp/80 and tcp/443 for incoming connections, >> because it assumes somehow that firewalls will be configured to allow that >> traffic in (some Windowze world assumption, i guess). >> >> In the tools menu, go to Options, Advanced, untick the option that reads "Use >> port (sic) 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections". >> >> Apply, exit skype, restart it. >> >> confirm with >> >> sockstat -4 | grep skype | grep \*:80 >> >> that skype is NOT listening on port 80 (you shouldn't see any output back from >> that cmd) ( similar for 443) >> > > Doesn't this imply that the OP was running Skype as root? Yes if the sysctl's below net.inet.ip.portrange all have there default values. Tom
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