Misterioso apagón de Skype

Sin conexion, desde ayer, hasta ahora ...

Lo que costará sacar una revisión de mi querido Skype (Lo uso en la PDA) que impida marcar el citado (y desconocido) número. Elegí Skype porque me parecía el mejor de todos en lo referente a detalles técnicos, a pesa de tener mi cuenta de correo en otro proveedor de servicios.

Creo que va a pasar mucho tiempo antes de que pueda volver a elegir un software Vo/IP.

Saludos.

http://www.skype.com/intl/es/

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Hello friends,

Take a deep breath. Skype is back to normal.

On Monday, we’ll provide a more detailed explanation of what happened. Until then, we’d like to apologize and thank you. Precisely in that order.

We know how difficult and frustrating the past two days have been. And still, your good wishes kept flowing in. Thank you for the amazing patience, trust and support!

UPDATED 18 August, 2007 11:00 GMT
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Esperaremos ansiosos al lunes :-)

Es que cualquiera que tuviera instalado Skype en el PC sabia que tenia convivir con virus y cuanto malware, la germinacion de Skype fue sostenida con un tallo muy debil y le nacieron muchos frutos, obviamente cayo por su gran e inseguro peso.

http://heartbeat.skype.com/

What happened on August 16

By My status Villu Arak on August 20, 2007.

On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was initiated by a massive restart of our user’s computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine software update.

The abnormally high number of restarts affected Skype’s network resources. This caused a flood of log-in requests, which, combined with the lack of peer-to-peer network resources, prompted a chain reaction that had a critical impact.

Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly. Regrettably, as a result of this disruption, Skype was unavailable to the majority of its users for approximately two days.

The issue has now been identified explicitly within Skype. We can confirm categorically that no malicious activities were attributed or that our users’ security was not, at any point, at risk.

This disruption was unprecedented in terms of its impact and scope. We would like to point out that very few technologies or communications networks today are guaranteed to operate without interruptions.

We are very proud that over the four years of its operation, Skype has provided a technically resilient communications tool to millions of people worldwide. Skype has now identified and already introduced a number of improvements to its software to ensure that our users will not be similarly affected in the unlikely possibility of this combination of events recurring.

The Skype community of users has been incredibly supportive and we are very grateful for all their good wishes.

(Posted at 5:35 AM GMT)