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August 16, 2007

Skype crash probably not DOS

Skype says it's a software issue that they are working on.  For me, it's six hours now and I haven't had more than a few minutes of "connectivity" in the past hour.  And, when connected, the on-line count was at a new low:

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Another glance through DESCLAUX and KORTCHINSKY part 2 suggests, in addition to traffic from clients to login servers, Skype generates a lot of traffic between the login servers and supernodes (see slide 16 for example).  This makes the login servers a doubly critical piece of Skype infrastructure.  Of course, if they merely introduced a bug in their login servers, it shouldn't take 12-24 hours to do a roll back.

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