Comments on: Skype Suffers Major Outage

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By: Rostislav Siryk

Rostislav Siryk — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:38:07 +0000

Interesting thing is that I noticed some problems with the Skype just before its outage. I use local Apache Server and Skype conflicts with it because possesses on the port 80th which is used by Apache too. So when I was trying to start my Apache, I failed until changed Apache’s port to something different like 8080.

Has anyone had such problems with the Skype as I depicted above?

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By: Intelliigence and Consistency

Intelliigence and Consistency — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:43:36 +0000

Overall Skype has provided a consistent and reliable level of service.
It is amazing in a way that this has never happened before.
It is amazing that Skype has managed to remain reasonably customer based – since they are a division and property of ebay. Ebay for those for have not been on the selling ( payment of fees to ebay) is a company with the lowest level of customer service and appreciation. Indeed it as if their employees are taught that ” You Work for Ebay. God has appointed you for this duty”.
It is true that Skype had no customer service line . However there is no need for one. The company informed its customers in its blog and acted to return service as fast as it could. Incoming phone calls to reassure users would of not brought service back any faster.
It shows in a way that being in a monopolistic situation can give a poor level of customer service whereas another division of the same company – with similar management being in a rapidly changing arena against a number of real competitors has a much better level of customer service.

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By: memod

memod — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:22:21 +0000

sheeesh, people, chill :O no need to climb the barricades because of a two day downtime. every software and network faces issues of some sort now and then, and with the immense size and spread of the skype network I am surprised it hasn’t happened more often. on the contrary, so far skype was a perfectly reliable and stable service for me.
I’ll have to pass on my beloved skype calls for two days, and I guess people who use it to call clients will have to pick up landline for two or three days, but seriously…why the panic. “monumental screw-up”? I don’t think so.

skype

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:57:17 +0000

Hi Guys, skype seems up now — you should download the new version 3.5.0.214 posted some minutes ago on Skype website.

Here is a link to what – supposingly – has been happening:

http://voipguid...ial-update.html

Sam

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:51:27 +0000

ffs

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:48:44 +0000

Ok i can get on but wen i log on no 1 is on and there are people on

By: Chandan

Chandan — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:14:48 +0000

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By: rkp

rkp — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:00:20 +0000

Phone companies have outages all the time. I can’t imagine a computer service NOT having an outage (especially with all those windows users around.)

It’s bound to happen, it is inevitable with any service. Calm down and take a break from work. Look at it as a blessing that you can breathe for a moment and actually enjoy that latte.

By: phil manzano

phil manzano — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:56:45 +0000

Well, that prooves one thing:
it’s not a pure peer-to-peer app!

real P2P feeds (like torrent) works even with tracker server down.

BTW, if you sniff your skype packets at skype startup, you’ll see that user registration, presence and call initiation is done with servers located in Estonia.
they share some info with long time clients (called nodes, i.e. they suck your bandwidth if you leave skype running all the time), but not registration info (hopefully).

AFAIK, the only real P2P part is after call initiation which is exactly the same in SIP with proper configuration.

By: Addies

Addies — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:13:09 +0000

Skype is no doubt one of the very best services I’ve ever used. These days the voice quality is getting a bit bad. It is still not working, hope it works soon.

By: mario palazzo

mario palazzo — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:47:57 +0000

it is 8:44 am EST on August 17…I am wondering when the service will be restored…..The service is no more a free service…we pay for it and therefore we should be able to rely on it….

By: MG

MG — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:58:36 +0000

I could never understand why there is a critical reliance on Skype since it is a one point of failure model, which is what I thought that we were getting away from in the new internet world. The better solution is to use SIP or IAX or such similar solution where you can go point to point, or through an exchange to the outside world, and should that exchange fail, there are multiple automatic backups. So Skype is great and all that, but single-points of failure are not the best option for a business.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:55:48 +0000

http://digg.com...e_Crash_Rundown

By: Al-Noor

Al-Noor — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:30:32 +0000

Skype AGAIN down in Holland. Stayed up for a few hours and has again been down for the past five hours or so. SO A MAJOR GLOBAL SHUTDOWN OF THE SKYPE NETWORK, it seems…..Has E-bay bought a Cat in a Bag?

By: Financier

Financier — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:21:53 +0000

I can just imagine the loss of revenue from such an outage. I use skype a lot, and now I should really consider having backup alternatives if they let me down.

By: document.write("Markus Tressl");

document.write("Markus Tressl"); — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:15:34 +0000

Ausfall bei Skype — wie gut ist VoIP wirklich?…

Skype funktioniert bekannterweise seit nunmehr fast 24h nicht mehr oder nur noch sporadisch.Auf dem Heartbeat-Blog von Skype werden nur sehr wenige Informationen zum Ausfall preisgegeben. Es handle si……