"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:3hjem251mruik32sncb2aap6n2vqfahdpq@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> Went into the office and found the PC chomping away at something,
> Netmeter showed 6 kbytes/s traffic both up and down.
>
> IPtools showed 14 screens of TCP connections to skype.exe processes,
> at least 400 active connections to a huge range of external IPs.
>
> Router firewall reported 2000 active streams (its limit) rebooted it
> with a new limit of 2500 and they were quickly filled up too.
>
> Email and web browsing very unreliable, lots of timeouts.
>
> Looked like dear old 192.168.0.35 had become part of Skype's
> infrastructure again. Couldn't even make a Skype call as it couldn't
> find a proxy ! bit off when it overloads the system to the point where
> it can't work itself.
>
> Such is life, Skype get paid millions by Ebay and I get to provide an
> infinitesimal part of their infrastructure :-)
>
> Phil
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