[asterisk-biz] Skype Outage Leaves Millions Speechless

[randulo]

On 8/17/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:58:17AM -0700, randulo wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's not 100% clear from your message: you do realize that Skype is
> inherently p2p, right?

Yes, but it should not be establishing connections at *that* rate. Now
that I reflect though (and as someone says above), the algo story may
make sense.

/r