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Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage
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.
Why hadn't it happened every other month the same thing happens?
They say in the press release "revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime"...
And then blame it on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday? Um, Microsoft has been doing Patch Tuesdays for quite a while now. Why didn't the same issue occur a few months ago when Microsoft relased almost double the number of patches as this month?
In other words, Skype has no one to blame but themselves and need to shift it off elsewhere.
The issue has now been identified explicitly within Skype.
Yup! Skype sure is "blaming" Microsoft for the outage!
Very insightful. Perhaps the only logical explanation given the duration of service outage.
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.
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.
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More info: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070820-gia
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