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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.

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  1. 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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