John Draper discovered an interesting thing Skype does. It accesses "pool-173-73-83-128.washdc.fios.verizon.net". It's a very heavily firewalled IP address. Does anyone know what this is?? Any details about that ??

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John Draper discovered an interesting thing Skype does. It accesses "pool-173-73-83-128.washdc.fio​s.verizon.net". It's a very heavily firewalled IP address. Does anyone know what this is?? Any details about that ??

anonymous · Answer

i don't understand it , do you want to know about the ip address 173.73.83.128 or something else ?

anonymous · Answer

Maybe they're acting as a Skype Supernode?

anonymous · Answer

I want to know what John Draper is trying to say...