September 17, 2009

Killer Fact!

Skype listens on port 80 by default. Naturally, this breaks Apache. Am I crazy or is that an odd choice of port number for something that's not an HTTP server?

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Word on the street is it does that to try to get past firewalls that might be lenient on :80 but block other ports. Apparently it's a config option you can turn off.
 
Yep, found it. Turns out it does port 443, too, for the same reason.
 
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