Cross-posting to tor-relays to give everyone the heads up - I just added 33033 to the ReducedExitPolicy page for Skype: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy
Non-relay related discussion should remove tor-relays from the Cc. James Brown: > Hello, people! > > Because many my contacts continue to use Skype and don't want to use any > nice soft (such as jabber, torchat and etc.) I need to use it too. > For protecting of my location and etc. I use it only through Tor (on VM > working under transparently-torifed user). > Some days ago I would be very, very difficalt to connect to skype > through the Tor-net (earlier it was very easy). > As can I see in my Vidalia, my skype application can make resolving > through tor and can connect to hosts through port 443, but conncetions > with port 33033 cannot establish (I can the the trying to open it and > after it it closed immediatly). > As can I see the skype doesn't work without that connections which now > establishes very rarely. > I have 2 versions: > a) the Skype team ban the Tor-connections to skype (but I can still > connect to skype to ports 443 and I can to browse their web-site and > even log in to it through the Tor without any problems) > or > b) many Tor-exits don't let the above-mentioned port (33033) in their > ExitPolicy. > It is not good from the Skype team if they do the first. > If the second hypothesis is right I ask owners of Exit-nodes, if it > possible, to let that port in their ExitPolicies. Not sure if that's actually the problem, but if the only way you can get to Skype is to use a Bittorrent-supporting exit, it certainly seems like a possibility. Thanks for the heads up James! -- Mike Perry
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