Skype

I am forced to allow skype on my business network. :-(

I created a dedicated socks server for skype.
The problem is even though you provide a socks server to Skype, it will
still try to go on the internet directly when a socks connection is
established.

This generates thousands of logs on the firewalls, making the firewall log
reading impossible.

I'm using Cisco PIX.

Any solution for not logging Skype activity or forcing Skype to use the
Socks server only?

Thank you.

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Re: Skype

could you tall how you block skype on pix firewall ?

Re: Skype

"Tomek W." wrote in message
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> could you tall how you block skype on pix firewall ?

I forbid direct Internet access.
Internet acces goes thru a filtering proxy. Skype access through this proxy
doesn't work.

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Re: Skype

"choowie" wrote in message
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>
> "Tomek W." wrote in message
> news:eh556d$nmt$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl...
> > could you tall how you block skype on pix firewall ?
>
> I forbid direct Internet access.
> Internet acces goes thru a filtering proxy. Skype access through this
proxy
> doesn't work.

Skype is one of those applications that does not work
through proxies, and does not work over firewalls.
You will have to find a way to allow Skype to use
direct internet access. I have to turn off my firewall
if I want to use Skype.

Re: Skype

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:43:41 -0700, "Charles Newman"
wrote:

>Skype is one of those applications that does not work
>through proxies, and does not work over firewalls.
>You will have to find a way to allow Skype to use
>direct internet access. I have to turn off my firewall
>if I want to use Skype.

I haven't used Skype for a while, but it's installed here, recently updated
and the last time I used it, I had no problem going through two firewalls
(Windows Firewall + Look 'n' Stop) and a router with it.

Does Skype on your system complain about not being able to access the net?


Tom

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Re: Skype

What kindaa of Proxy are you using.....
And what kindaa logging did you enabled or skypes logs are for which
level.



CK




Tom Hall wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:43:41 -0700, "Charles Newman"
> wrote:
>
> >Skype is one of those applications that does not work
> >through proxies, and does not work over firewalls.
> >You will have to find a way to allow Skype to use
> >direct internet access. I have to turn off my firewall
> >if I want to use Skype.
>
> I haven't used Skype for a while, but it's installed here, recently updated
> and the last time I used it, I had no problem going through two firewalls
> (Windows Firewall + Look 'n' Stop) and a router with it.
>
> Does Skype on your system complain about not being able to access the net?
>
>
> Tom
>
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Re: Skype

On 26 Oct 2006 08:04:37 -0700, "NETADMIN" wrote:

>What kindaa of Proxy are you using.....
>And what kindaa logging did you enabled or skypes logs are for which
>level.

No proxy here - and AFAIK Skype doesn't log anything. I use it so seldom
it's hardly worth bothering to look :-)


Tom

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"Sebastian Gottschalk" wrote in message
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>.
>
>> I hope this helps you and clears up the mystery. Skype is really very
>> easy to use. And it's fun too!
>
> And it's a trojan, a black box, a known security vulnerability, a
> technical
> back-evolution and utterly useless.


http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,28914 2,sid14_gci1136763,00.html

Re: Skype

"Tom Hall" wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:43:41 -0700, "Charles Newman"
> wrote:
>
> >Skype is one of those applications that does not work
> >through proxies, and does not work over firewalls.
> >You will have to find a way to allow Skype to use
> >direct internet access. I have to turn off my firewall
> >if I want to use Skype.
>
> I haven't used Skype for a while, but it's installed here, recently
updated
> and the last time I used it, I had no problem going through two firewalls
> (Windows Firewall + Look 'n' Stop) and a router with it.
>
> Does Skype on your system complain about not being able to access the net?

I have to keep Windows firewall off, becuase some
Flight Sim addons cannot work with it, I just
have Tiny on the gateway machine.

>
> Tom
>
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