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Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ddos-ing-yourself dept.

brajesh writes to tell us that Skype has blamed its outage over the last week on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Apparently the huge numbers of computers rebooting (and the resulting flood of login requests) revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime. Skype further stressed that there was no malicious activity and user security was never in any danger.

4 of 286 comments (clear)

  1. If this were true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why hadn't it happened every other month the same thing happens?

  2. Re:Wiretap law? by Zebra_X · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Very insightful. Perhaps the only logical explanation given the duration of service outage.

  3. Re:Assuming this is true... by ucla74 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Except Skype didn't "sort of blame" Microsoft. If your car has a flat tire, and I point out that fact to you, do you "sort of blame" me for the flat tire? Yes, I know...another weak automobile analogy. The internal combustion engine really needs to go the way of the dinosaurs.

  4. Not MSs Fault by ViceClown · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think this story is badly titled. My understanding is that the outage happened because of patch Tuesday but Skype isn't blaming Microsoft for it. In fact it helped reveal a flaw in their p2p healing networking stack. I'm as much a /. fanboy as the next guy but this title is inflammatory and misleading.

    More info: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070820-gian t-synchronized-reboot-windows-update-smokes-skype. html

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