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They could just easily run a whole bunch of supernodes themselves in the cloud, and turn off the supernode functionality for client ip addressses. I don't see
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
They could just easily run a whole bunch of supernodes themselves in the cloud, and turn off the supernode functionality for client ip addressses. I don't see why they make it out to be a big dealbreaker.
- tincholio 15y agoOf course they could, but then it wouldn't be p2p anymore, right?
- th 15y agoI think it could probably still be considered p2p. Skype only falls back to using a supernode if two clients cannot form a connection on their own: http://saikat.guha.cc/pub/iptps06-skype/ http://saikat.guha.cc/pub/iptps06-skype/
- tincholio 15y agoIf you read my original comment, that's precisely what I said. Supernodes are used to link NAT'ed hosts. If the supernodes were run by Skype on "the cloud" they wouldn't really be peers anymore, but act as servers. That's what I said in my 2nd post.