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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:26:59 +0100
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        "eculp@argosteve.com" <eculp@argosteve.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange problem with skype on RELENG_6 KERNEL since the end of may.
Message-ID:  <1182270419.1253.19.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20070619234043.48169311@localhost>
References:  <20070614092909.553h1gdf2g4gg4ks@correo.argosteve.com> <20070619234043.48169311@localhost>

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On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 23:40 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:29:09 -0500
> "eculp@argosteve.com" <eculp@argosteve.com> wrote:
>=20
> > A RELENG_6 kernel from May 21 works fine with skype but boot a newer =20
> > kernel and skype seems to be blocking port 80.   Apache logs show =20
> > nothing.  I can find no logs errors anywhere but a telnet to port 80 =20
> > answers with what would seem to be binary chars.  I close skype and =20
> > all is back to normal.  I had originally thought that it had to do =20
> > with the new xorg installation but it seems to be something in the =20
> > kernel.  The configurations were the same, basically GENERIC with all =20
> > the pf stuff.
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> Skype has an option to listen on tcp/80 and tcp/443 for incoming connecti=
ons,
> because it assumes somehow that firewalls will be configured to allow tha=
t
> traffic in (some Windowze world assumption, i guess).
>=20
> In the tools menu,  go to Options, Advanced, untick the option that reads=
 "Use
> port (sic) 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections".
>=20
> Apply, exit skype, restart it.
>=20
> confirm with=20
>=20
> sockstat -4 | grep skype | grep \*:80
>=20
> that skype is NOT listening on port 80 (you shouldn't see any output back=
 from
> that cmd) ( similar for 443)
>=20

Doesn't this imply that the OP was running Skype as root?

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