Strange problem with skype on RELENG_6 KERNEL since the end of may.

[Norberto Meijome]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:29:09 -0500
"eculp at argosteve.com" <eculp at 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)

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