Was Skype crash P2P warning?
p2pnet news | Product News:- Might the recent two-day Skype outage in fact be a warning for businesses contemplating P2P to enhance their services?
New Scientist thinks that may be the case.
“P2P networks are touted as the future of internet distribution for video and TV, since the high bandwidth that would normally be provided by central servers is instead shared between individual network members, removing the problem of data bottlenecks,” it says, adding:
“But on 16 August, the Skype internet telephony network, which depends on P2P, crashed. Millions of users’ computers had rebooted almost simultaneously during a routine update of Windows software.
“This reduced the network’s resources, and when that multitude of freshly rebooted computers sent their combined log-in requests to Skype, its servers buckled.”
Also See:
two-day Skype outage – Skype lets Microsoft off, August 22, 2007
New Scientist – Skype outage raises P2P fears, August 24, 2007
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August 24th, 2007 at 11:01 am
skype should investigate for something fishy, then sue microsoft
August 26th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Hmmmm…yaknow, from MY viewpoint the problem IS NOT p2p. Its Microsoft and Windows especially the resource-hog and gestapo-loving vista OS.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Thats why you don’t have windows set for auto update.
Hell, I can’t use auto update, Microsoft doesn’t recognize my bootleg copy of windows XP
So they can go F.U.C.K Themselves
I PAY NOTHING,,,, NOTHING Not one Tiny little Penny for ANYTHING that involves Movies, Music, Games or software.
GET OVER IT YOU rich Bastards.
Hell, go get a real job, where you actually sweat and use your hands.