Skype - what happened on August 16
Skype has released an official statement regarding the problems of August 16-17.
“On August 16, 2007, the peer-to-peer network of Skype began to work unstably and suffered a critical violation. Network disruption was caused by mass registrations of network computers around the world within a very short time. Mass reloads were caused by regular scheduled software updates.
An abnormally high number of restarts affected the resources of the Skype network. This triggered a massive client registration on the peer-to-peer network, which caused a chain reaction that led to a critical situation.
Skype's peer-to-peer network has a built-in self-healing capability, but this case revealed an unknown software error at the level of the network resource allocation algorithm. As a result, Skype was not available to most users for almost two days.
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This problem was exclusively an internal error of Skype, and we can categorically confirm that the problem was not caused by malicious actions of third parties .
This fall was unprecedented in scale and time, but we want to say that today very few communication systems can guarantee work without interruption.
We are very proud that in four years, Skype has provided millions of users worldwide with a convenient communication tool. We identified the problem and made many improvements to the Skype software to ensure that the system is stable for the user, minimizing the possibility of repeating the situation on August 16th.
The Skype user community was incredibly supportive to us, and we are very grateful for the good wishes. ”
A bit of free translation from the VoIP blog site
UPD : Another official explanation of the reasons for answering questions
“On August 16, 2007, the peer-to-peer network of Skype began to work unstably and suffered a critical violation. Network disruption was caused by mass registrations of network computers around the world within a very short time. Mass reloads were caused by regular scheduled software updates.
An abnormally high number of restarts affected the resources of the Skype network. This triggered a massive client registration on the peer-to-peer network, which caused a chain reaction that led to a critical situation.
Skype's peer-to-peer network has a built-in self-healing capability, but this case revealed an unknown software error at the level of the network resource allocation algorithm. As a result, Skype was not available to most users for almost two days.
')
This problem was exclusively an internal error of Skype, and we can categorically confirm that the problem was not caused by malicious actions of third parties .
This fall was unprecedented in scale and time, but we want to say that today very few communication systems can guarantee work without interruption.
We are very proud that in four years, Skype has provided millions of users worldwide with a convenient communication tool. We identified the problem and made many improvements to the Skype software to ensure that the system is stable for the user, minimizing the possibility of repeating the situation on August 16th.
The Skype user community was incredibly supportive to us, and we are very grateful for the good wishes. ”
A bit of free translation from the VoIP blog site
UPD : Another official explanation of the reasons for answering questions
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/13366/
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