{"id":8732,"date":"2012-12-12T12:52:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2012-12-12T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T18:52:23","slug":"how-skype-co-get-round-firewalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8732","title":{"rendered":"How Skype &#038; Co. get round firewalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Network administrators who do not appreciate this sort of hole in their firewall and are worried about abuse, are left with only one option &#8211; they have to block outgoing UDP traffic, or limit it to essential individual cases. UDP is not required for normal internet communication anyway &#8211; the web, e-mail and suchlike all use TCP. Streaming protocols may, however, encounter problems, as they often use UDP because of the reduced overhead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-online.com\/security\/features\/How-Skype-Co-get-round-firewalls-747314.html\">How Skype &amp; Co. get round firewalls &#8211; The H Security: News and Features<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network administrators who do not appreciate this sort of hole in their firewall and are worried about abuse, are left with only one option &#8211; they have to block outgoing UDP traffic, or limit it to essential individual cases. UDP &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8732\">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":[110],"tags":[238,469,101,752],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-firewall","tag-network-administration","tag-security","tag-udp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","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=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}