Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage 286
brajesh writes to tell us that Skype has blamed its outage over the last week on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Apparently the huge numbers of computers rebooting (and the resulting flood of login requests) revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime. Skype further stressed that there was no malicious activity and user security was never in any danger.
Skype did not blame Microsoft (Score:5, Informative)
Skype Blames Skype for Outage (Score:5, Informative)
That's what Skype says. Doesn't sound like they're blaming anyone but themselves.
it's just you (Score:2, Informative)
Skype said it's the reboots that matter (Score:4, Informative)
Maybe the average machine had more downtime on this month's reboot? Or the reboots happened in a more concentrated time window?
Re:Yeah........ (Score:5, Informative)
I had to leave town and usually leave Thunderbird up and running to filter my mail on my IMAP account so my laptop syncs without having to redo all the filters I have in place. After no reboot on Tuesday I was relieved that I wouldn't have an issue with a down T-bird unless the power went out - which never happens unless I leave town (happened only once before).
Sure enough, none of my mail is filtered after Thursday. Come home this morning and see "Your computer has been recently updated" balloon.
Re:So, their servers got hammered (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Yeah........ (Score:3, Informative)
Re:P2P dumbness (Score:1, Informative)
This was a problem with the login servers. Reading comprehension?
Re:NAT dumbness (Score:3, Informative)
Re:P2P dumbness (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yeah........ (Score:3, Informative)
Faaaaaalse. Since win2k, you've had the built-in ability to select an account, and have your machine behave as if that account was "logging in" automatically.
Granted, MS makes that setting a little hard to find, something that Tweak UI remedies, but still.
Re:Yeah........ (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Wiretap law? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yeah........ (Score:4, Informative)
Skype's model is somewhat controversial. My own company does not allow employees to run Skype on company issued laptops because the closed code is running distributed and there is no way of knowing where company confidential conversations might be landing.