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Skype Slowly Restores Service To Users

Posted by timothy on from the reset-the-counter dept.

CWmike writes "Skype continues to slowly recover after an outage caused by problems with its peer-to-peer interconnection system. The latest estimates say that 10 million users are now online, according to a blog post. Skype's outage began on Wednesday."

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  1. Whatever went on... by Aerorae · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It totally classifies as epic fail.

  2. Skype running mega-supernodes on EC2? by Phil+Karn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Last night I was running Skype on a publicly routable IP address, which probably made my machine a supernode candidate. I noticed a lot of idle traffic between my Skype client and quite a few IP addresses within the Amazon EC2 compute cloud. I'd never seen that before. Usually my background traffic is to random cable and DSL addresses. My guess is that Amazon is where Skype brought up their "extra mega-supernodes". EC2 is handy for things like that.