Skype brief post-mortem
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Skype brief post-mortem
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Re: Skype brief post-mortem
#2This seems like a nightmare situation for P2P company. Your super nodes get knocked offline and there's no way to force update them until they come back online, which is sporadic at best (based on my own experience today), which means either manually updating them or completely re-seeding your network (which seems to be the route they're going -- though so far it doesn't appear to be going all that well).
As other people have stated on other articles posted here, no discredit to them for having some downtime (I'm sure they're working round the clock on it), but I have to wonder if this could have been avoided with a phased roll out of new version to the super nodes.
Re: Skype brief post-mortem
#3Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype.
So, what was the problem affecting versions of Skype?
Re: Skype brief post-mortem
#4does anyone know why skype picked German as the only translation of this message?
Re: Skype brief post-mortem
#5This seems like a nightmare situation for P2P company. Your super nodes get knocked offline and there's no way to force update them until they come back online, which is sporadic at best (based on my own experience today), which means either manually updating them or completely re-seeding your network (which seems to be the route they're going -- though so far it doesn't appear to be going all that well). As other pe…
Why is it a problem to bring supernode back online?
Re: Skype brief post-mortem
#6This seems like a nightmare situation for P2P company. Your super nodes get knocked offline and there's no way to force update them until they come back online, which is sporadic at best (based on my own experience today), which means either manually updating them or completely re-seeding your network (which seems to be the route they're going -- though so far it doesn't appear to be going all that well). As other pe…
Why is it a problem to bring supernode back online?
I can imagine it would self-DDoS from lack of peer supernodes to share the load.
Re: Skype brief post-mortem
#7"Our engineers are creating new ‘mega-supernodes’ as fast as they can"
What a brilliant solution.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it a problem to bring supernode back online?
I can imagine it would self-DDoS from lack of peer supernodes to share the load.
But at least it would successfully reply to at least some of requests, right?
And would still keep trying to serve the requests, right?
So if sufficient number of supernodes is brought back online then the problems should disappear.
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#9does anyone know why skype picked German as the only translation of this message?
Because Germans tend to complain the most if free stuff does not work ;-)
Re: Skype brief post-mortem
#10This isn't really a post-mortem; they're still in progress on a fix.