[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

[Joshua D'Alton]

Yes you can be skypes ports won't be blocked, it will be the standard P2P
ports like 6969 and so on.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Julian DeMarchi <
> julian at jdcomputers.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 02/05/2013 09:02 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>> > And not to mention P2P torrent traffic is only about 10% of illegal
>> > traffic, compared to the 30%+ of file locker and 60%+ of usenet.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
>>
>> runs over p2p...
>>
>
> Parts of that page are very much out of date.  Although Skype is still
> technically peer-to-peer based, the "peers" (supernodes) that previously
> could be any other Skype users system, are now only Microsoft systems in
> Microsoft datacenters. So in essence, it's more of a client-server
> architecture than P2P (even though it still does use P2P-style concepts to
> find those servers)
>
> Even so, it's a moot point - Telstra aren't talking about throttling
> "P2P", they are talking about throttling specific P2P protocols - and
> dollars-to-donuts says Skype would not be one of those they are considering.
>
>   Scott
>
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