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Should I be concerned at what Skype is doing?

dogbone

dogbone

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I recently installed little snitch. When I started skype little snitch informed me that it wanted to connect to a server. I clicked on 'deny' and the next one popped up. After a few minutes it became apparent that this was going to continue indefinitely.

What is it all about and should I be concerned. Is there any possible danger to my computer. I'm using the standard mac firewall and an adsl router/modem.

Here is the list of connections that I could be bothered to copy I don't know when or if it was ever going to stop.

tph1abb143.tky.mesh.ad.jp on TCP port 17278
85.204.208.212 on TCP port 2316 (sent-lm)
84-74-16-51.dclient.hispeed.ch on TCP port 1175
85.8.1.126 on TCP port 1039
c-68-34-60-56.hsd1.dc.comcast.net on TCP port 10411
sa-84-52-4-126.saturn.infonet.ee on TCP port 20876
207.158-205-66.ftth.swbr.surewest.net on TCP port 2157
hoas-fe1ddd00-2.dhcp.inet.fi on TCP port 15506
84-121-14-92.onocable.ono.com on TCP port 1135
61.36.49.33 on TCP port 4358 (qsnet-nucl)
cablep-219-54-141.cablep.bezeqint.net on TCP port 61541
host2.118.atlantic.net on TCP port 13243
dattadeskt01.rnw.umit.at on TCP port 15702
71.228.17.250 on TCP port 60449
chello084112087205.3.11.vie.surfer.at on TCP port 32776
se-pc1.u-aizu.ac.jp on TCP port 8035
user-85-201-96-2.tvcablenet.be on TCP port 44738
71.196.37.202 on TCP port 51189
fr-ssy-c3-04-084119107144.chello.fr on TCP port 6430
eastgate-four-eighty-one.mit.edu on TCP port 57553
host184167.burgasnet.com on TCP port 31820
85-64-91-111.barak-online.net on TCP port 8994
81.166.56.219 on TCP port 14285
ua-85-226-181-150.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se on TCP port 2177
ip68-228-39-243.tc.ph.cox.net on TCP port 17977
host001.vimpeln20.se on TCP port 2976 (cns-srv-port)
spc2-ward2-3-0-cust10.bagu.broadband.ntl.com on TCP port 4968
12-202-13-238.client.insightbb.com on TCP port 59429
084202027234.customer.alfanett.no on TCP port 3915
85.217.32.71 on TCP port 24774
adsl-85-217-32-71.kotinet.com on TCP port 24774
 
Sounds a little weird, I've never been asked this when using Skype. Maybe make sure you have the latest version, or maybe just reinstall it. I don't think Skype is supposed to ask you to connect to a server.
 
I've recently installed the latest version.

I should be clear that it is not Skype that is doing the asking it is LittleSnitch. If it was up to Skype it would just connect without me knowing.
 
Skype is a peer to peer network so its quite normal - go to little snitch in system prefs and make a user rule to allow any connection for Skype.
 
Should I set the prefs for Skype to allow *any* network connection.

And also should I set the port and protocol to *any*?
 
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