{"id":4038,"date":"2012-05-04T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2012-05-04T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:58:37","slug":"skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The change, which Immunity Security&#8217;s Kostya Kortchinsky said occurred about two months ago, represents a major departure from the design that has powered Skype for the past decade. Since its introduction in 2003, the network has consisted of &#8220;supernodes&#8221; made up of regular users who had sufficient bandwidth, processing power, and other system requirements to qualify. These supernodes then transferred data with other supernodes in a peer-to-peer fashion. At any given time, there were typically a little more than 48,000 clients that operated this way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2012\/05\/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars\">Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s more, the boxes are running a version of Linux using <a href=\"https:\/\/grsecurity.net\/\">grsecurity<\/a>, a collection of patches and configurations designed to make servers more resistant to attacks. In addition to hardening them to hacks, the Microsoft-hosted boxes are able to accommodate significantly more users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change, which Immunity Security&#8217;s Kostya Kortchinsky said occurred about two months ago, represents a major departure from the design that has powered Skype for the past decade. Since its introduction in 2003, the network has consisted of &#8220;supernodes&#8221; made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,50,391],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}