End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death

Arun writes "John Walker (of AutoDesk and Fourmilab fame), primary author of SpeakFreely, has decided to EOL the program (a pioneering network telephony effort), come January 15th, 2004. He cites difficulty in maintaining a decade-old code base, lack of appropriate developer support and a fundamental change in the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet upon which SF is dependent as motivating factors behind his decision. While the last release of the program will continue to be available from SourceForge, the main web site, mailing list, and web forum will be shut down on the aforementioned date." He's got some good points too, like how once IPv6 is more common, most users probably won't go back to one address per machine. I know I enjoy the added security of a NATed firewall, and without a really good reason, I won't be quick to give it up.

Comments

Re:Hrml

[Nuclear Elephant]

How is that off-topic...or do you not know what SpeakFreely is designed to do? RTFA.

try skype

[LennyDotCom]

I haven't seen this on /. yet maybe I just missed it http://skype.com/ very cool p2p voice over IP