[LINK] There goes the neighbourhood...

[rene]

On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:25:22 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
[...]
> Ekiga etc will do all this. The problem is STUN servers! You need
> them. Skype solved the problem by distributing it, and essentially
> stealing bandwidth and CPU from anyone running Skype on a public IP
> address. It promotes these to "supernodes" and provides STUN-like
> services on them.

Aaahhh, thanks. I knew about the stealing (one reason I've never been 
inclined to use Skype), but if I ever knew that's associated with their 
provision of STUN-like services, I'd forgotten.

>There's a good paper on it, though things may have moved on a bit since
>2004:

>   arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0412017

Thanks.

Irene