SkypeOut: Service Is Down for Millions

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by Ina Fried

Skype users were sent scrambling for one of the few remaining pay phones on Wednesday as the Internet telephone service experienced a widespread outage.

A page deep in the company’s support site confirms the issue, but appears to significantly understate the problem.

http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/2010...-for-millions/

[Cudni]

it is down big time, several hours now

and their blog entry on the subject
http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/skype_downtime_today.html?cm_mmc=PXTW|0700_B6-_-downtime-20101222

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A further update on Skype downtime

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Another update: Skype stabilized

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CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage

As a follow-up to last week’s outage, here is a detailed explanation of what transpired, the root cause, and plans to mitigate this from happening again in the future. For starters, it helps to understand that Skype is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which is explained here. Last week, the P2P network became unstable and suffered a critical failure. The failure lasted approximately 24 hours from December 22, 0800 PST/1600 GMT to December 23, 0800 PST/1600 GMT.

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html

[Cudni]

Interesting read, thanks