[asterisk-biz] Skype Outage Leaves Millions Speechless

[Aleks Clark]

Actually, the crazy p2p connections actually reinforce their algorithm
story. If their p2p algorithms have flaked out, it could cause all sorts of
trouble. OTOH, I don't think they'd run logins over p2p....

On 8/17/07, randulo <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/17/07, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
> > I've actually been surprised how little press there has been about this.
>
> This is true, Dean, I just happened to need Skype yesterday to send a
> text message. I didn't see anyting wrong until I googled the news.
>
> Not only was it not working, but it kept on establishing p2p
> connections at the rate of about 2 per second. Watching the software
> fw, it was very suspicious, so I shut that down and went to a MacBook
> where I couldn't log in at all. I would not be surprised to learn that
> there's more to this than the "algorithm" story given by Skype Damage
> Control.
>
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