Posts by Perry 1 4 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Sep 2009
Actually the routing isn't all over the place any longer:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/
That said... I bet its a lot easier for Law Enforcement to tap now... I'll get my coat, the Black Helicopters will arrive soon.
Your point about supernodes is not correct any longer. Since Microsoft bought Skype they moved the supernode function into MS's global datacenters. One of the ironies is that they used thousands of hardened linux servers.
You can google plenty of information about it but here is a source link:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/
DataDirect Networks has made that box a long time. It appears IBM OEM's it and just puts a new faceplate on it.
http://www.datadirectnet.com/9900
Note the name, and the disk orientation, and the brackets.
To the poster above, no it doesn't have cooling problems. We have about 700T of this stuff and it's great & cheap (from DDN, i'm sure IBM adds some manuals and a few zeros to the price).
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