Re: [Ekiga-list] unable to register my accounts

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 30 septembre 2009 à 00:49 +0200, Ennio-Sr a écrit :
> * Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> [280909, 08:29]:
> > Le dimanche 27 septembre 2009 à 22:42 +0200, Ennio-Sr a écrit :
> > > 
> > > Now I shall investigate a few other things, such as audio quality (worse
> > > than in the past) and video (recognizes webcam but shows no image.
> > 
> > Pulseaudio ? ;-)
> > 
> 
> Yes I have pulseaudio; in the meantime I succeded to set webcam working
> (all I needed was a libpt-1.11.2-plugins-v4l2) and it works better than
> in skype :-). Thanks for the great work you've done!
> 
> I have just one curiosity: yesterday (on reboot) my PC was not
> connecting to internet; finally I discovered it was a question of having
> dropped an 's' in dns-nameservers .....However, being cut off from the
> world I tried both Ekiga and Skype and while the former would not
> connect (as any other web address) skype went on: how was that possible?
> May be skype doesn't need literal address conversion because there is an
> internal reference to its numerical address?

That's the only sane explanation I can imagine. Skype is working by IP
and not by DNS names.



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