Comments on: What K-O’ed Skype Last Week

By: Skype’s Back: Record User Numbers Thanks to New iOS App: Tech News and Analysis «

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:46:00 +0000

[...] which was hit by more than 24 hours of downtime just a few weeks ago. That outage was the result of buggy Windows clients overloading certain supernodes that are part of the Skype network. In essence, after the holidays and the Consumer Electronics [...]

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How Skype Could Make the Mobile Video Market Explode — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:14:49 +0000

[...] propel mobile video conferencing into the mainstream. The communications platform, still fresh off its 24-hour outage, is expected to unveil a mobile video offering next week at CES and has been recently teasing what [...]

By: Aswath Rao

Aswath Rao — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:46:45 +0000

Buggy Windows client may be the instigator and forced upgrade could have exacerbated the problem. But lack of some operational procedures are more glaring:
1. not ensuring that the population of supernodes are diverse (not same OS, not same version of app)
2. protecting overloaded supernodes from new additions to the network
3. not preventing new nodes from being added which would increase signalling traffic between the supernodes

By: don

don — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:49:06 +0000

And they both are rude.

aep528: muppets should have clicked the Reply button – IF that was the comment he meant to shut up (rude).

fwiw: Apple was not referenced in my comment, was it?

By: gzino

gzino — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:20:11 +0000

True but their architecture is arguably more resilient and redundant than any major SP (though maybe their software dev/QA/update processes need some tuning).

Question: do we know if the temporary supernodes were regular, user-owned computers, just promoted, or if they were in fact Skype owned/rented nodes?

By: aep528

aep528 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:19:19 +0000

Do you really not understand he was responding to the post above?

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By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:45:05 +0000

+1 to that. And there is a reason why they don’t to draw attention to the forced updates that seem to have pushed out buggy software so quickly.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:44:13 +0000

Hmmm…. how am I on my Apple soapbox. It seems you want to read what you want to read. The article clearly states that it is a problem with Skype.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:34:45 +0000

No, it’s a Skype problem. They rely on their end users to provide the computing power necessary (instead of running centralized servers), and bill you for the privilege when you want to use premium services. A brilliant business model.