Hi,
I have a nasty firewall which blocks skype dead.
I have two possible solutions:
1) A squid authenticating proxy for HTTP traffic only.
2) A SOCKS 4 proxy allowing various ports to be opened, without authentication required.
Any chance one of these two options will be supported in Linux Skype soon?
Thanks!
Ludwig
Full Version: SOCKS or authenticated proxy support
From the Skype for Linux FAQ:
Skype for Linux isn’t able to connect?
This may happen if you are in a proxied network. Skype for Linux automatically looks for proxy settings from your Opera config files. You may also set the environment variables \"http_proxy\" or \"https_proxy\" (note the lowercase) to point to your HTTP(S) proxy (\"host:port\").
Have you tried this? Might not work with your particular proxy setup, but worth a shot.
QUOTE
Skype for Linux isn’t able to connect?
This may happen if you are in a proxied network. Skype for Linux automatically looks for proxy settings from your Opera config files. You may also set the environment variables \"http_proxy\" or \"https_proxy\" (note the lowercase) to point to your HTTP(S) proxy (\"host:port\").
Have you tried this? Might not work with your particular proxy setup, but worth a shot.
Yes.
I tried both the squid server and SOCKS server as http_proxy and https_proxy, until I remembered that I needed a username and password for squid...
I do have root access on the proxy machine (also a linux box), and can fiddle and tweak socks and squid to some extent. Running skype on the firewall itself might be going a bit too far though (the other sysadmins might frown upon my activities
)
Ludwig
I tried both the squid server and SOCKS server as http_proxy and https_proxy, until I remembered that I needed a username and password for squid...
I do have root access on the proxy machine (also a linux box), and can fiddle and tweak socks and squid to some extent. Running skype on the firewall itself might be going a bit too far though (the other sysadmins might frown upon my activities
)
Ludwig
Skype for Linux has currently no support for Socks or authenticating proxy - only plain HTTP(S) proxy is supported.
Dear Skype developers,
there is a limit on hosts visited per day set by my network administrators, so running Skype here triggers some "P2P guard" on and I get nasty emails...
I intended to use the outside proxy to overcome this limitation. However, even with the "export http_proxy=hostname:3128" set (the proxy at hostname:3128 works), Skype seems to connect to other machines directly, not using the proxy (i see the connections in iptraf).
Can you please help me what to do? I'm on a study in a foreign country and I want to use SkypeOut a lot
cheers
-t-
ps: running gentoo
there is a limit on hosts visited per day set by my network administrators, so running Skype here triggers some "P2P guard" on and I get nasty emails...
I intended to use the outside proxy to overcome this limitation. However, even with the "export http_proxy=hostname:3128" set (the proxy at hostname:3128 works), Skype seems to connect to other machines directly, not using the proxy
(i see the connections in iptraf).
Can you please help me what to do? I'm on a study in a foreign country and I want to use SkypeOut a lot
cheers
-t-
ps: running gentoo
QUOTE(tygr007)
I intended to use the outside proxy to overcome this limitation. However, even with the \"export http_proxy=hostname:3128\" set (the proxy at hostname:3128 works), Skype seems to connect to other machines directly, not using the proxy (i see the connections in iptraf).
(i see the connections in iptraf).If it can connect, it does, regardless of your proxy settings. One thing you might try is to make your local firewall rules more restrictive and only allow connections through the proxy.
finally decided better than a proxy and restrict firewall its safer to encrypt/tunnel all my traffic to a safe place, one never knows what these guys from network purity departement may be scanning for using their fat ciscos ...
there is a little howto in the forum ->
http://forum.skype.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=36140#36140
btw, skype kixx azz :mrgreen:
there is a little howto in the forum ->
http://forum.skype.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=36140#36140
btw, skype kixx azz :mrgreen:
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